[NTLUG:Discuss] Backup solutions

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:15:31AM -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> David Stanaway wrote:
> > Leroy Tennison wrote:
> >> I've been asked this twice recently.  My thinking is tape or CD/DVD with 
> >> the latter being preferable for small situations.  Are there other good 
> >> alternatives?
> > 
> > LTO3 baby.
> 
> I'll vote LTO3 as well (but $$$$).  The nice thing about LTO3 is that
> you'll saturate your bus to the unit before you reach the
> transfer limits of LTO3.
> 
> Another possible alternative is disk.  Disk is fast and
> is also quite cheap.  Might even consider USB disk.  Then
> you have a portable solution that can be connected to
> multiple computers one at a time for backing up (it's
> flexible).  Might be a more cost effective "small situation"
> backup solution.

USB microdrives are getting to be pretty large, too -- larger
than CD/DVD.  Here's a couple with 8GB/12GB capacities:

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/8714/

Pm