Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

[Mitja Podreka]

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: To protect users from their own errors, you could just backup to /var/local/backup on your existing raid5 array. To protect the raid5 array, add a spare drive on a different controller if possible to provide some failover. Add two for raid1. If you have a spare computer, backup to that. This could be your workstation. Add a drive or two (for raid1 there). Have it on a separate power supply/UPS/whatever. You mean separate power supply for additional drive(s)? Is it to switch it off after backup is finished? Then, external USB makes sense. Get three: one hot, one on-site cold, one off-site cold for disaster. Have you found an external USB drive that takes 270 GB or will you have multiple drives and use your backup software for volume management? I found an external USB drive with 320GB. I was thinking to buy one for beginning. But now I might buy more. Did you mean: one hot - all the time connected to workstation? one on-site cold - not connected but at the faculty? one off-site cold - not connected located outside of the building? If you want, you could set up a dedicated backup server and offer backup services to the whole faculty :) This would be best and might become my next step, I just have to talk with the IT guys first. Thanks, Mitja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]