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<div style="">I'd buy a few cheap Netgear ReadyNAS boxes, put two 1T drives in each and use rsync to backup to multiple sets. Once a week, swap devices.<br>
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No drives to change, setup is fairly simple and the data sets are mirrored, so if a hard drive dies, you have time to deal.<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF463043"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> cialug-bounces@cialug.org [cialug-bounces@cialug.org] on behalf of Tim Champion [timchampion@gmail.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 15, 2010 11:27<br>
<b>To:</b> cialug<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Cialug] suggestions on HDD based backup<br>
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<div>We are planning on going to a hard drive based backup system at work. We are a non-profit on a tight budget (I can spend about $1500 on this total), so a enterprise level disk-to-disk system isn't feasible. The current plan is to scrap the 160GB DLT backup
system, and back up to SATA desktop hard drives instead. A 1TB hard drive is about $80 ($70 today at newegg by the way), so the cost per GB is pretty cheap. They would also not require a tape drive in the event of an actual disaster. A SATA hard drive could
go in just about any computer to start the recovery.<br>
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Anyway, I'm trying to figure out what to use to be able to easily swap out the hard drives on a daily basis since we are on a 2 week rotation. I'm considering an external eSATA hard drive dock like this:<br>
<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121046" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121046</a><br>
or one of the many 5.25 inch internal bays with caddies. The disadvantage there is buying 10 caddies on top of the drive bay. I also once found an internal 5.25 bay that didn't take caddies (just stick a bare drive in), but heck if I can find it now.<br>
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I'm thinking about getting a few padded carrying cases to take the drives off site. and keep the anti-static bags the drives come in.<br>
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Any suggestions, do's & don't's would be appreciated.<br>
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Tim Champion<br>
<a href="mailto:timchampion@gmail.com" target="_blank">timchampion@gmail.com</a><br>
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