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Adaptec Software division has just come out with a product called "reZoom"
which backs up critical files to a second hard drive automatically and in
the background.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hinton Clabaugh [mailto:clabaugh@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 10:04 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Backing up huge disk drives
>
>
> Another advantage to this system: a hard drive used only for backups seems
> less likely to fail than a tape drive. I once had a tape drive eat the
> backup tape during a critical restore, forcing me to redo my tax returns
> from scratch.
>
>
>
> > 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
> >
> >
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