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Re: Backing up huge disk drives



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A slightly more exotic solution would be to get a RAID controller card from 
the likes of Promise that mirrors your drive. It could even improve 
performance, depending on which RAID format you choose.

In a message dated 00-01-13 19:50:33 EST, janitor@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> Since a 27 Gigabyte disk drive costs $169
>  and a 20 Gigabyte tape drive costs $500
>  and 20 Gigabyte blank tapes costs $60 each,
>  the frugal thing to do is
>  
>    BUY THREE DISK DRIVES AND BACK UP
>    ONTO (HARD) DISK.
>  
>  Just buy the cradles that let you slide
>  disks in and out through the front panel
>  (about $25 each), buy Drive Image software,
>  and back up onto disk.  Easy.
>  
>  Advantages:
>  
>  (1) extremely fast backups
>  (2) extremely fast and simple restores
>  (3) low cost compared to tape
>