Re: Backup Solution

On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:28:47 -0500
luther rochester <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3/31/2011 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > I've been working on a backup solution and I want to get something
> > like a tape drive to put my backups on. I've though about using
> > something like and external HDD, but I dont really want to deal
> > with that type of system.
> >
> > The way I'm currently doing backups is I backup to a disk partition
> > on my Raid Array, but I want somewhere to put the full backups that
> > I take every month. I dont want to really on my Raid array for
> > backups as I use it for several other things as well, including my
> > movie store.
> >
> > One server's backup is about 20GB, the rest are less then 1GB each.
> 
> 
> 
> How about a USB flash drive? You can get 32GB for ~$50 and 64GB for 
> ~$100 these days. Very portable. More convenient than a hard drive,
> and your data will be safer with no moving parts.
> 

I'll look at that. Also with the small size I can keep it pretty well
hidden away at a different location. My biggest worry with a Flash
Drive is the life of the drive.
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