[plug] removeable media backup drives

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Ben Jensz wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I was wondering whether anyone could recommend a tape/dat/removeable media
> drive that is fairly large in capacity.  Looking at something that holds at
> least 30Gb preferably, as the machine it will be backing up has a maximum
> storage capacity of 80Gb.  At the moment the disk usage on the machine is
> about 25Gb, which over time will grow.  I don't mind having to use a couple
> of tapes to do a full backup and I would prefer not to use compression.  Of
> course the drive has to work under Linux :).
> 
> Money is definetly a large restraint, could anyone make any recommendations
> on a suitable drive that is not overly expensive?

Consider just using IDE HDDs in removable caddies.  If you know what you're
doing, you can hot-swap those for backup.  That's the main way that we do
backups in my office and we have also implemented it for clients.  We wrote some
scripts to help us which I can send to you.