[plug] backing up Linux to Windows

Leon Brooks leon at cyberknights.com.au
Thu Mar 24 08:22:11 WST 2005


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:48, dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au wrote:
> There is a need to move tapes offsite however, but never hurts to
> see other solutions.

How about hard disks? 200GB in a 3.5" USB2 enclosure comes out at ~$200 
apiece. Hot pluggable, much cheaper than tapes, about the same speed, no 
possibility of getting a tape stuck in the drive, easy to automate (down to 
flagging the drives and having the backup script whine loudly if the wrong 
backup drive is presented).

Cheers; Leon

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