Archive for February, 2008

More on backups

I was bitching about tape backups at one place, now I am moving another place from DVD based backups to tapes. They ( the second place ) doesn’t use much storage so we can use older and cheaper tape drives from eBay. I’ve paid £20 for 7 drives! These are not all the latest but [...]

Tape Backup Solutions

My current arrangement for backup is Dell PowerVault 122T SDLT and Backup Exec 10 on Windows 2000 Server, at least at one place. The only thing which I can say about it is … unreliable. Tape library has mechanical problems, build in tape drive has tape errors more often than 3 girls combined periods. And [...]