Backup Solutions

[tleslie]

I am having to decide on an issue similar,
also need to send a copy to client on regular interval,
may consider blueray,
media will be cheap as dirt soon, and very reliable,
reasonable storage size.
Burner is about 800$ now i believe. Burn will probably be half that in a
year.
The capacity of blueray is just right for me too.
-tl

On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 07:11 -0400, Jon Thiele wrote:
> Almost all of my small business clients run the same setup:  CENTOS on their
> file server and flexbackup as backup software to a Seagate STT220000A
> 10/20GB tape drive.  I love these drives.  I've used them almost exclusively
> for the last 8 years.  They are cheap ($200), last 4 or 5 years under normal
> load and easy to use.  However, last week I discovered that I have a
> problem.  A client's tape drive failed and I found out that Seagate/Quantum
> no longer make these drives - in fact, I can't find a single distributor
> (TechData, DirectDial, EMJ) in Canada that has stock...  (Refurbished - yes,
> new - no.)
> 
> I'm now looking for a new, long term solution.  I've thought of moving to
> 8GB or 16GB USB RAM drives (reliability problems???), I played with using
> daily USB external hard drives (kind of hard to put in your purse to take
> home every night...), I looked into online backup solutions (most of them
> for some unknown reason want Windows...), someone suggested the IOMEGA REV
> removable hard drive (are they going to be around in 5 years???), I've
> looked at more expensive SCSI drives (large initial cost > $1,200), and I've
> even thought of setting up my own backup site where I would go in every
> night and grab the modified files from each client (do I really want to do
> this???).
> 
> So, can I pick your collective brains???  What cheap, offsite, easy-to-use,
> backup solutions do you use for your Linux servers???  Your suggestions are
> appreciated.
> 
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