[X4U] OT-backup suggestions for a business

[Crandon David]

Thanks for the suggestions Zane.

But why would the media in the safe be toast? Is it that the safe will 
be hot enough to melt the tapes...but not burn important papers?

So how about small hard drives, would they stand up to the heat better?

David


On May 23, 2005, at 11:37 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>> So what suggestions do you all have on both media and software (PC 
>> unfortunately).
>
> I'd normally recommend some sort of DLT drive, however, in this case 
> it seems like that would be overkill.  with only about 9GB of data a 
> day, something like a 4mm DDS3 or DDS4 drive is probably the way to 
> go.  He'll want to be sure he periodically replaces the tapes.
>
> The fireproof safe you mention really won't do anything for the 
> backups other than provide security.  If there is a fire, any backup 
> media in the safe is toast.
>
> As for software, I'm not sure, I've not messed with anything for 
> Windows on that small of a scale.
>
> 		Zane
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