[ale] Low-end tapedrives for SOHO environment

[Jim Lynch]

I attempted to make Mondo work when it was written up in Linux Journal a 
few years ago.  I was never able to make it work on a Debian install.  I 
communicated with the author a few times on his mailing list about fixing 
it, but he stopped responding to me and I figured he lost interest.

Jim.
At 08:22 AM 3/22/2004, Dow Hurst wrote:
>I just read a blurb on the project called "Mondo" which is for backing up 
>from bare metal.  It was in the first ClusterWorld issue of Vol. 2.  Jeff 
>Layton is the guy in charge of the column where project and software news 
>is put out and this was in there.  Might be worth looking at.  I liked the 
>part where it will make a backup on sequential CDs and is bootable.
>Dow
>
>
>griffisb at bellsouth.net wrote:
>>I didn't want to hijack the Bacula thread, but did want to discuss 
>>various options for tape backups for the small office/home office 
>>environment. Particularly for a charity (church) on a budget.
>>I saw the discussions on good tape drive units, but know a church (or 
>>home user) would have problems justifying 1K or so. How do the IDE tape 
>>drives stack up as far as reliability? I saw that you can pick up a 
>>Seagate 10/20Gig IDE Tape Drive unit for $184 or so online. That is 
>>closer to my budget. Even saw them for less. Looks like tapes are in the 
>>$34 range.
>>Are these suitable for smaller networks? I was thinking of home use, 
>>backing up my laptops to my Samba desktop, then doing a tape backup from 
>>the Samba server. I also REALLY liked the external harddrive solution, 
>>and that might work better for at a lower cost.
>>Assuming a tape drive for a small office or charity - would you schedule 
>>full backups weekly, and rotate 4 sets of tapes? Would you schedule 
>>bi-monthly and rotate 2 sets of tapes? I'm trying to get an idea of 
>>pricing, to determine how many tapes I would need.
>>My thought would be: full backups weekly, rotate 4 sets of tapes (if 
>>budget permits). Then do daily incremental backups. My main concerns 
>>would be PCs that payroll is stored on, and the PC baptisms, marriages 
>>and deaths are stored on. Right now everything went from cards into a 
>>database, but the database is not backed up. It took several months to go 
>>from cards to database, and the project is not complete. It would be a 
>>pain to lose it.
>>So, for the church:
>>1 IDE tape drive = appr. $200 (w/ shipping)
>>5 PC's @ 20 Gig per disk = 100 gigs of data   (I would need to size it 
>>again to validate)
>>Full backups weekly, x 4 sets uncompressed = 400 gigs, or 40 tapes = 
>>appr. $1,360
>>$1,360 + $200 = YIKES!!!! Maybe the external disk drive is a better idea! 
>>Or maybe rotate 2 sets of tapes. Or maybe only backup 2 critical PC's. 
>>How do you guys price out back ups, and is the above pricing anywhere 
>>near accurate?
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