[Cialug] suggestions on HDD based backup

[Tim Champion]

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.

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:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121046
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.

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.

Any suggestions, do's & don't's would be appreciated.

Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com
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