Soon USB hard drive will stop.
I use CDR for backup

Andre





Hi Everyone,

A good friend of mine has a business with MANY 10s of GB of important
data..
When you start to get that much, it really isn't economical to backup
onto
tape anymore.. the tapes cost HEAPS (especially if you want a full
weekly
rotation) and do eventually wear out..

He uses external hard disks in external cases that provide a USB
interface.
Easy and quick. You can even easily take them off site.

The Backup software in XP now _FINALLY_ doesn't suck and can backup to a
file, even a remote network file. He uses the XP backup software so he
can
backup all the MS Exchange databases and SQLServer databases that he
uses
without having to stop them..

Works well, and pretty fast considering the amount of data.

Cheers,
Ash.

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Ashley Roll
Digital Nemesis Pty Ltd
www.digitalnemesis.com
Mobile: +61 (0)417 705 718




> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Alan B. Pearce
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 February 2002 7:24 PM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> 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.

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