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I started the thread, with saying how pleased I was with HP's service when
called to replace the drive.
Their drive works well and restoring is easy. Incremantal backups, and
creating a disaster recvoery set work fine.
----- Original Message -----
From: <LScharpen@xxxxxxx>
To: <fritz@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: Off-topic: Tape Backups
> I've been using an HP Colorado II 20gB tape back up unit for about 9
months
> now and am quite pleased with what it does. For a 10-12 gB backup, I'd
guess
> you could look for roughly a 1.5 hour back up time with verification and
> about half that without verification. I do all my backups Friday nights
or
> Saturdays when I can do it with everything else shut down. No reason ...
> just policy.
>
> The question of tape back up was discussed in a thread a few months ago
and
> there was one poster who was really p***** at his HP tape back up unit
and
> others who just thought they were not the way to go. Just wanted to
mention
> other views here. I also looked into CD drive backup and came to the same
> conclusions you seem to allude to ..... now may not be the right time if
you
> want convenient backup. I concluded that the CD approach would not be as
> error free or problem free or as convenient as tape backup right now. One
> problem with tape back up is the cost of the tapes. I was also worried
about
> tape reliability when I bought this unit because of serious problems I'd
had
> with an older system. Right out of the box I had a tape problem. Took
about
> 5 minutes on the phone with an HP tech to get authorization for a 'return
and
> replace' of the tape (NOT the drive ... it's never given a hint of a
> problem). Not a single whimper out of the tape unit or tapes since then.
I
> don't do incremental backups but I'm near certain that the HP tape unit
> allows that to be done conveniently as well.
>
> Lee Scharpen
>
>
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