This is a big problem that people everywhere are running into. The only thing I can suggest is figure out what the _most_ important data you have is and keep that backed up. If everything is extremely important to you, then, for 300GB, expect to spend a year's salary to back it all up :) A reasonable DLT drive is at least $3000 and for media with compression up to 80GB per tape is roughly $100 per tape. You do the math :) There's really no other solution. Anything other than tape is just too slow to back up that much data in a day. Even running through 4 80GB DLTs is going to take a _long_ time (most of the night). If you really care about your data that much, you won't just back it up to a RAID. Gabe On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 01:19:58PM -0600, Austad, Jay wrote: > Ok, with all the talk of buying huge hard drives and setting up huge file > servers, does anyone have any suggestions for backing them up? Between me > and my roomie, we have over 300GB of drives with data that we'd rather not > lose. Tape drives are expensive, and the cheap ones only hold like 4 or 8GB > worth of data per tape. Even if I did find a cheap AIT drive, the tapes are > still about $100 each. > > What is the best solution for this? When I only had 20GB worth of data, > burning it to 30 CD's wasn't too much of pain in the ass to do once a month > or so, but now it's a monumental task. I know we could buy a couple extra > drives and set up some of the volumes using RAID-5, but that doesn't protect > us against file system corruption, it only protects against a drive failure. > So, we really do need some sort of backup scheme, but everything I find > seems to get very expensive in one way or another. > > Jay > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "Get out of my trash! I'm telling you for the last time! A man works hard for his filth, just to have vagrants steal it. It's a cryin' shame." - George Liquor in "The Boy Who Cried Rat!" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------