Hmm... with no disrespect intended to what is, after all, quite a cool-looking hacker machine, I'm not sure our managing director would be happy if I showed him something like that and told him it was the key element of our new backup infrastructure. (-8
Plus, what about offsite backup? We have about 1.5TB, here - that's ten economical, six huge, hard discs per "tape set". We'd have to have some way of manipulating them all fairly easily. I need to think about this.
Lateral thought: Maybe the cheapest "magazine" for a set of discs is an actual computer? Having your offsite backup being a complete bootable PC with 1000Base-TX would be... amusing.
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Date: 2003-09-02 04:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-02 03:31 pm (UTC)WD/Seagate hard disc: 120GB for £81 = 67.5p/GB
Verbatim Datalife Plus 80-minute CD-R: 50×700MB for £11.99 = 34p/GB
Verbatim Datelife Plus 80-minutes CD-RW: 700MB for 74p = 106p/GB
JVC DVD-R: 4.7GB for 99p = 21p/GB
JVC DVD-RW: 4.7GB for £2.29 = 49p/GB
DLT cartridge: 10×40GB for £270 = 67.5p/GB
That means I should be backing the company up to hard discs, not DLTs, right? Where's the flaw in my reasoning?
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Date: 2003-09-03 01:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-03 03:23 am (UTC)Plus, what about offsite backup? We have about 1.5TB, here - that's ten economical, six huge, hard discs per "tape set". We'd have to have some way
of manipulating them all fairly easily. I need to think about this.
Lateral thought: Maybe the cheapest "magazine" for a set of discs is an actual computer? Having your offsite backup being a complete bootable PC with 1000Base-TX would be... amusing.