BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] How big is your backup?

2009-12-23 14:30:36
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How big is your backup?
From: Gerald Brandt <gbr AT majentis DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:28:57 -0600 (CST)

----- "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Chris Baker wrote:
> > Also, if you don't require off-site backup, go with an internal drive.
> > Some of the external drives out there still have Linux issues. None of
> > the internal drives have those kind of issues.
> >  
> > You can get up 2 TB now in one single drive now for under $200. Western
> > Digital, Seagate, and Hitachi are all selling them.
>
> Even if you do need to swap drives, you can get trayless hotswap
> enclosures for bare SATA drives.
>

We're running BackupPC under Citrix XenServer (have been for about a year now).  So if I use an external drive, it'll have to be USB.  I think we'll stick with the iSCSI, and then copy the latest archive to an external drive manually.

Gerald
 
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