OT: Tape less Backup System

[Fairlight]

At Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:31:23PM -0500 or thereabouts, 
suspect D. Thomas Podnar was observed uttering:
> 
> Another interesting set of drives is the new AIT "Turbo" series.
> Top-of-the-line AIT2 Turbo is very fast, 80/204GB, has cheaper media
> (no more internal memory chips in the media) and is ~$1,200 street price.

But not exactly something you stick in your home machine.  My new machine
will have 680GB of disk.  The storage only cost 239 * 2 + 70 or so...  So
there's no way in hell that I'm going to put in a piece of equipment that
costs more than twice as much as the actual realtime storage media, yet
gets used once in a blue moon for actual redundancy.

I'd prefer to just back up selected data segments to DVD's, at this time.

In a corporate business environment, $1200 isn't much.  In a small business
or worse, personal environment, decent capacity and performance tape is
still woefully overpriced, IMHO.

The problem is--how much of that material do you NEED vs WANT to recover
if a drive takes a header?  I have 13GB on the current Arcadia system.  Of
that, I think the actual critical data that NEEDS to be saved is under 1GB.
Yeah, it's a PITA to reinstall the OS, apps, games, and preferences and
such, but it's better than throwing away $1200, IMHO.  Anything -really-
important (like my code), I have in about 4 different places besides my own
machine(s), scattered in safe places around the net.  The odds of all five
instances of everything dying all at once, irrecoverably, is pretty slim.

mark->
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