Re: What to use for backups?

From: Matthew Schumacher <schu@schu.net>
Date: Wed Apr 07 2004 - 11:57:30 AKDT

You really think I can get a netapp or a library that cheap? That would
be cool :)

I really don't like the disk based solution and the last thing I need is
another linux box to patch and maintain.

Thanks,

schu

Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
>
>
>>Anyway, if you have any good ways of dealing with this problem I would
>>like to hear them.
>
>
> Wait for some of the cheaper tape carousel units to show up on E-bay. I've
> seen them go as low as $300 before (and that's with two SDT-9000s in it). Or,
> if you're comfortable with a disk-based solution, create a Linux file server
> using LVM and use the snapshot capabilities. For that matter, you could
> probably pick up a NetApp on E-bay dirt cheap with snapshot capability as
> well.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
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