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Re: [cobalt-users] ARKEIA Back up software
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] ARKEIA Back up software
- From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Apr 19 02:34:00 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
At 4/19/01 12:26 PM -0400, you wrote:
I would like to know more about this software too. Our goal is to set up an
auto-backup system to a SCSI tape drive. A step by step instruction
including what type of tape drive to purchase, how to install the software,
etc., is appreciated. Thanks.
For info on the software, contact the manufacturer.
My recommendation on tape drives: don't buy them. Spend $250 for an 80GB drive
and use rsync to make backups to that. If you're going to spend more money,
$1200 will get you a RAID-5 array of three 80GB drives, for 160GB usable
capacity.
Faster, more reliable, instant-restore, random-access, mirroring capability
rather than backup if you want it, remote mounting, and so on.
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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx