On Tuesday 22 February 2005 06:18, Jason Miller wrote:
>Well I know at least for my application the tape backup solution is
> being used for redundancy and save on cost. If a tape goes bad I
> have 6 more that are available to me which rotate on a daily basis
> automatically using a auto changer. If the hard drive was to fail
> on you then you would loose all of the data and have to start from
> scratch. Most companies also do offsite storage of tapes as well
> but I guess you can technically do both of these with the the
> external HDD but the automation process and expense would be
> greater. So I would say that its a matter of preference/expense
> requirements. Here is a picture of my setup which works great for
> me...
>
>*Windows box's back up to a 250Gig HDD on the local Amanada server
> over the network using samba.

rsync is better for that.  Much less bandwidth per run.

>*Amanda backs up the local partition
>*Linux boxes backup directly using the amanda client
>
>
>This way I do not have to restore my windows backups from tape
> unless I need more the the last days of data. Helps save time for
> me at least.
>
>
>
>Jason
>
>> From: ddaasd <ddaasd AT gmail DOT com>
>> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:00:28 +0100
>> To: <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
>> Subject: tape backup vs hdd backup
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am new to this list.
>> I work in a company as admin where AMANDA is implemented as a
>> BackUp System, so this list is exactly what I was looking for.
>>
>> Also I am new to Amanda. I've never configured amanda from
>> scratch. Here in the firm, the former admin has configured amanda
>> and now I have it working.
>> Last days a colleague asked me why are we using tape backup which
>> is more complicated and why do we not use an external 250 GB
>> USB/Firewire HDD. I didn't know exactly what to say.
>>
>> I know all companies have tape backup, but which are the real
>> reasons for that. Why not to use an external 300 GB USB HDD?
>>
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>>
>> All the best,
>> ddaas

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