RE: [TCLUG:6384] Cheap high-volume backups?

[Scott Dier <dieman@ringworld.org>]

Look at the Castlewood ORB drive, a cheap reusable medium. (2gb disks)

Scott

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Dan Willenbring wrote:

> How about a 20 gig IDE HDD?  They are only $250-300 and it wouldn't take
> long at all to transfer all that data...  It wont be much for scalability
> and it's not very robust, but if your looking for fast, big and cheap it's
> the route I would go.
> 
> Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lamfada@lugh.net [mailto:lamfada@lugh.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 2:57 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:6384] Cheap high-volume backups?
> 
> You want to backup 16GB onto 650MB media? Ouch, you are braver than I am :)
> Maybe if you do CD-RW, but they can be pricey compared to CD-R, but you can
> create a filesystem on them & then write to the filesystem.  You can then
> overwrite them instead of using new disks.  The other problem with CD-R* is
> the slow write times & you need at least 700+ MB free for an ISO9660 image.
> Tape is definately better as far as compatibility with automation goes.
> OTOH, CD-R is quite useful for one-offs, etc.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 13:49:35 -0500 (CDT), Yaron <jethro@yaron.org> wrote:
> >  Hi,
> >
> >Ok, I've got about 16 gigs of harddrives and I think it's time I ran a
> >backup...
> >
> >I'd like to get a SCSI DAT drive, because I know and trust DAT (as long as
> >I make dual backups of each tape!). But those things are expensive as
> >heck, especially DAT3...
> >
> >I tohught about a 2 gig JAZ drive, but I hear the media is a bit
> >expensive, and I figure I'll need at least 20 gigs worth of media (double
> >backups, compression, etc).
> >
> >Right now the best option looks like a CD-R. I can get a Plextor x4/x12
> >Internal SCSI for around $250, and mediais dirt-cheap. Could get 100 CDs
> >for like $50 or less, make several backups and have enough left to play
> >frisbie with. Plus I end up having a CD-R which is pretty cool (:
> >
> >Anyone have a nice Backup Media/Drives comparison thing or advice? I'm
> >moving on the 26th and I want to have a backup before that...
> >
> >-Yaron
> >
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