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| John Aldrich 2006-09-16, 7:15 pm |
| I have recently been hired by my employer and have been tasked with
creating a backup strategy. We have a server that currently has less
than 80 Gigs of drive space on it, and less than half of that is
"used." To that end, I've been reviewing possible backup devices and
saw something new (to me, at least) is available. It's called a REV
Drive. I'm wondering if anyone on this list can tell me something about
it? Is this just an updated form of the ZIP and JAZ drives, or is this
something new? From what I can see, it appears to be an updated version
of the proprietary JAZ and ZiP drives. Can someone comment on the
reliability of the device?
Can someone on the list suggest something, external and preferably
non-SCSI, which would accomodate our backup needs and be able to grow
with the organization? We currently only have the one Windows 2003 SBS
Server, and only about 70 Gigs of total drive space, but I anticipate
that at least the drive space will grow in the future.
I'm looking for something that can be taken off-site, so removable
media is a requirement, otherwise I'd just invest in an NAS box.
Thanks
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| Lynn McGuire 2006-09-16, 7:15 pm |
| >I have recently been hired by my employer and have been tasked with
> creating a backup strategy. We have a server that currently has less
> than 80 Gigs of drive space on it, and less than half of that is
> "used." To that end, I've been reviewing possible backup devices and
> saw something new (to me, at least) is available. It's called a REV
> Drive. I'm wondering if anyone on this list can tell me something about
Use a USB external hard drive. Many of them. Get at least 2X
the size (you can get 500 GB USB drives at www.newegg.com
for about $200).
Use robocopy from MS to copy the contents of the drive.
Lynn
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| John Aldrich 2006-09-28, 1:13 pm |
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Lynn McGuire wrote:
>
> Use a USB external hard drive. Many of them. Get at least 2X
> the size (you can get 500 GB USB drives at www.newegg.com
> for about $200).
>
> Use robocopy from MS to copy the contents of the drive.
>
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm somewhat leaning towards an off-site
internet-based backup service. Then again, I don't know if the bosses
are going to be willing to pay for something like that. *shrug* Thanks
again for your opinion. I have to admit I'm not thrilled with the idea
of USB drives, but it may be the way to go, probably using MS Backup
since we have Exchange to back up as well.
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