What to use for backups?

Luggers,

I am starting to get concerned about backups at my house. I now have
200+ gigs of data on my file server but really don't have a good way to
back it up. The super important stuff fits on my DDS3 tape, but the
rest of it is vulnerable. I can't really toss $1200 at a SDLT tape
drive then $150 per tape so I am wondering what some of the list members
are doing to protect their data.

Please don't reply and say to get raid 1 or 5 as that is NOT a backup,
it does not save you from deleting something on accident.

I suppose I could get another disk and copy my data their nightly, but I
would need a 400+ gig disk to get any rotation out of it which is
important since disk failure is frequent during the backup itself.

I thought about getting a dvd writer and archiving the more static data
but that becomes more of a management headache than I want.

Perhaps there is a cheap network drive I can buy that will give me the
space I need.

Anyway, if you have any good ways of dealing with this problem I would
like to hear them.

Also, this is on a ultra 5 so I can only fit 2 disks in it.

Thanks,

schu
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Received on Wed Apr 7 11:29:04 2004