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Tim,
I've had good results with a HP 40GB DAT tape-drive (U2W SCSI
interface) to back about 50GB (I guess that's what you meant, 50MB
reminds me of data needs 12-15 years ago ;-)
For disk-failure redundancy, try the mirroring which comes with
WinNT Server (4.0 or 2000) -- NT Workstation doesn't have it.
Much cheaper than the Hardware RAID solutions, but also less
performance. If you use NT's software mirroring with IDE disks,
make sure each disk operates on a different IDE channel -- or
use U2W SCSI if you don't mind spending some more $.
Norton Ghost is ofcourse another viable solution for doing backups
of whole partitions.
Be careful though that most M$ OSes sit so tightly on the hardware
(on-board chipsets etc) that if (knock on wood) you have a hardware
failure, you need an exact same system to get them to work.
Feel free to ask if you have more specific questions.
Hope this helped,
M
At 10:33 AM 3/30/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Good morning, folks!
>
>I am adding a new box to my small network and I wanted to know if any of
>you have any good recommendations regarding tape backups? I know some
>people are now using large hard drives and then simply using ghost or a
>similar package to keep duplicates...any other ideas out there? This
>network has about 50 megs of data, programs and info on it...
>
>Thanks.
>
>Tim Morge
>
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