Report on the ORB 2.2 (Re: [OT] Removal disks for backups)

I wrote: > I'm therefore thinking of buying a removal disk for offsite > backups. > I am considering getting a Castlewood Systems (http://www.castlewood.com/) > ORB 2.2 GB external SCSI drive. See a review at > http://www8.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,408937,00.html > > It's pretty

Re: [OT] Removal disks for backups

I wrote: > I'm therefore thinking of buying a removal disk for offsite > backups. My current backup needs are 1.9GB after full > compression, although this will likely grow (doesn't it always). Mistake on my part... it's 2.9GB compressed, so already bigger than one Orb disk. > I am considering

[OT] Removal disks for backups

Hello all, I'm currently backing up my workstation data to a spare internal disk. This is nice because a few cron tar scripts do the job every night without my intervention. A spare IDE disk is very cheap, and I don't keep the partitions mounted so nothing happens to them. The downside is that