[Cialug] suggestions on HDD based backup

[Josh More]

I'd buy a few cheap Netgear ReadyNAS boxes, put two 1T drives in each and use rsync to backup to multiple sets.  Once a week, swap devices.

No drives to change, setup is fairly simple and the data sets are mirrored, so if a hard drive dies, you have time to deal.



-Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
morej at alliancetechnologies.net<mailto:morej at alliancetechnologies.net>
515-245-7701
________________________________
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of Tim Champion [timchampion at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 11:27
To: cialug
Subject: [Cialug] suggestions on HDD based backup

We are planning on going to a hard drive based backup system at work. We are a non-profit on a tight budget (I can spend about $1500 on this total), so a enterprise level disk-to-disk system isn't feasible. The current plan is to scrap the 160GB DLT backup system, and back up to SATA desktop hard drives instead.   A 1TB hard drive is about $80 ($70 today at newegg by the way), so the cost per GB is pretty cheap. They would also not require a tape drive in the event of an actual disaster.  A SATA hard drive could go in just about any computer to start the recovery.

Anyway, I'm trying to figure out what to use to be able to easily swap out the hard drives on a daily basis since we are on a 2 week rotation. I'm considering an external eSATA hard drive dock like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121046
or one of the many 5.25 inch internal bays with caddies. The disadvantage there is buying 10 caddies on top of the drive bay. I also once found an internal 5.25 bay that didn't take caddies (just stick a bare drive in), but heck if I can find it now.

I'm thinking about getting a few padded carrying cases to take the drives off site. and keep the anti-static bags the drives come in.

Any suggestions, do's & don't's would be appreciated.

Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com<mailto:timchampion at gmail.com>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://cialug.org/pipermail/cialug/attachments/20100415/16869cf5/attachment-0001.htm