Backup for 2TB?

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Val

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Whats the best way to backup 2TB? Im planning on 2 raptors in raid0 + 2 750GB seagates in 0 as well.
 
Backups shouldn't be placed on RAID0 arrays for safety reasons... A single disk failure and you lose all your data.
 
Boomslang said:
Backups shouldn't be placed on RAID0 arrays for safety reasons... A single disk failure and you lose all your data.
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He's telling us what he needs to back up, not what he is going to use.
We need to supply that.

If you want it all - tape library.

BIG BUCKS!
 
I built a cheap server using 8x320gb drives in raid5 to backup my main rigs data. Unless you use tapes theres really not a lot of other options.
 
How much are you willing to spend???
What type of setup are you looking for....USB/1394 connection, NAS, Server?

If it were me...well it was about 3 months ago, but anyways, what I did was buy a cheap Core 2 Duo barebones system off Ebay for about 100 dollars threw in 1GB of ddr2 ram, a 20GB ide boot drive and installed Windows Home Server Beta and two 500 GB Seagate Drives for backup data. I have no video/sound/monitor just hooked up through ethernet, if I need to acess the desktop i can just remote connect. Every night at 3am all my systems on my network get backed up the first time it is really slow but after that it does incremental backups(only backs up the changes). However for your setup you would need 4 500GB drives, I suggest 500GB drives because you get the best bang for your buck with those right now = $0.24/GB.

Another more expensive option would be an NAS like a Buffalo Terrastation, however i dont reccomend this because they overcharge you for everything in NAS setups and they cant do what a server can do for you.

I used Windows Home Server in my example because of its easy to use backup software, and i like how easy it makes remote desktop connection to my network from the internet/outside my network. You could also use Windows Server 2003, or Ubuntu Server with some open-source backup software.

Another option although very time consuming and not automated would be to purchase some external HDD's and plug them in USB and backup manually.

One final option would also be to purchase a tape drive and some tapes. Very Expensive.
 
I was thinking external HDD box for USB/FW/LAN. But i need like 5 500GB drives for RAID5.

Anyone knows a good empty box for 5+ drives?
 
Val said:
I was thinking external HDD box for USB/FW/LAN. But i need like 5 500GB drives for RAID5.

Anyone knows a good empty box for 5+ drives?
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I use external daisy chained firewire drives for my backups.
The backup software should be able to span the backups across disks.
I use norton ghost, which does that.

If you need many drives (4+) for your backups, it might be cheaper to build a cheap PC since quality firewire drives (AMS Venus) cost around $50+ each.
The backup PC would offer even more options: RAID, support for both IDE and SATA drives, networking through firewire or 10/100/1000 lan, etc.
The only problem is that it become one more system you have to manage.
 
If this is lightweight backup - then some 1TB HDs in external enclosures or bay, backed up to file or sync'd with periodic rotation of the target drives.

Heavier weight: backup to big HD raid, then to LTO3 tapes, preferably in an autoloader or multidrive setup, also with media rotation. And then still periodically sync or snapshot to an external HD for storage offsite with a member of the above LTO3 media set.
 
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