[RTC List] On-Line back-up/storage services

[Robert Beckerdite]

An interesting option for backing up a few pc's at home is the HP home
servers. These little devices provide shared media (music, picture and
Video) and automate the backup to replicated disks (similar to but not equal
to raid 1).  If you are looking at external hard drives this may also be an
option to consider.

Rob Beckerdite
Beckerdite Consulting



On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Sean Ennis, ScanDoc <sean at scandoc.com>
wrote:

> I agree with Chris that most folks should also maintain a local full
> backup, which is cheap and easy with external hard drives these days.
>
> I will add this:
> If you are in the market for an external hard drive for backups,
> avoid the prepackaged drive in an enclosure. Instead purchase a high
> quality OEM bare drive, and enclosure separately.
> It will cost a little bit more, but you will have a full 3 year
> warranty on the drive instead of a 1 year warranty.
>
> In most cases with a prepackaged external drive, if you open the
> enclosure to do anything with the bare drive, the warranty is void on
> both the enclosure and the drive itself.  You might have to break the
> enclosure to get inside, as they are often welded shut.
>
> I'm using a Western Digital SATA drive with a Vantec enclosure that
> has USB 2.0 and eSATA (3 Gbps!!) interfaces. This setup was not much
> more expensive than the "pre-enclosed" drives and has worked
> flawlessly on Windows, Mac and Linux systems.
>
> While you can shop online and assemble the parts yourself, I know
> that Renaissance will set one up for you, so you get the "plug and
> play" advantage, but still get the 3 year warranty.
>
> At 03:12 PM 6/23/2008, you wrote:
> >Finally, consider getting either a network hard drive or a
> >peripheral hard drive to back-up your whole system in addition to
> >the online back-up. The benefit of remote back-up is that if there
> >is an earthquake, flood or fire, your data is still protected ...
> >but you'll pay a lot more if you're backing up your whole system.
> >All you really need off site are your files.
>
>
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Robert Beckerdite
Senior Systems Engineer, MCSE+Security
Beckerdite Consulting
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