Rick Stevens wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote: [snip]
Interesting idea. However. What if something goes wrong in the chasis, for example, power surge, all teh HDD's go? no?
You could even swap between a few external drives so that you have a USB drive in use, one on the shelf, one in the safety deposit box, one home, one in the car, etc. Get as crazy as you like. :-)
The prob I have I have with the USB solution is that it requires user intervention.
ANY backup solution requires user intervention unless you're backing up to something offsite. You have to rotate your tapes, change CD-R or DVD-R or swap the hard drive (USB, firewire or hot-swap) and take the backup media off site if you want safety.
If you leave the media near the system being backed up, you aren't secure. I recommend to clients that, whatever media they use, AT LEAST get a fire-rated document box (about $100) and put the media in it. If the building burns down or an earthquake occurs (both real possibilities here in Southern California), at least the backup will probably survive.
That was exactly my suggestion since the office is in a wooden building. What's the likely hood of being able to setup a box that mounts and backups to an external , USB HDD as soon as it's plugged in, then alerts the user(s) when it's done so that they may switch it off an store it somewhere firesafe?
I was considering a NAS solution in a firesafe box, but I'm guessing that if a wire can get into the box, it's nolonger firesafe
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