"> A reasonable scheme is to have several hard drives
        in those removable carriers."

This sounds like the winner for me (and maybe a number
of us) in terms of speed and cost.

Does anybody have any experience with these and
can recommend a manufacturer?

I've seen some with and without fans and other bells
and whistles ...

Jim



----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan B. Pearce" <A.B.Pearce@RL.AC.UK>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:23 AM
Subject: Re: [OT]: Hard Drive Crash Recovery


> >Networked backups a good idea, off-site backups even better! I've never
> >heard of this happening before, but I'm paranoid now.
>
> A reasonable scheme is to have several hard drives in those removable
> carriers. If it is possible to mirror the drive in the machine, or even do
a
> file copy of the important directories, and then remove the drive in the
> carrier to take home overnight. Next day bring in a different carrier and
do
> the same again, so you rotate the carrier drives through the machine.
>
> In my days doing computer servicing it was recommended that the tape
backup
> system had a rotation of minimum three tapes in what was known as
> "grandfather-father-son" rotation, and the backup software had flags to
> enforce this, although it could be overwritten if you had to. Any sort of
> backup system needs to do something like this so you have a fallback
> position if the most recent backup does fail.
>
>

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