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Neil Brierley
Hi,
Our Sony tape drive/auto-loader broke again the other day, so I am looking
at alternate backup solutions. I really like the idea of using an external
USB2/Firewire hard disk instead of tape, but couldn't find any good
articles, comments or warnings on the web or in the newsgroups.
We currently use Backup Exec 9 to backup 3 Windows 2000 servers, with Open
File Option's and Exchange agent as neccessary. BE supports backup-to-disk
on removable media, so that should be fine, so now it just comes down to
finding the right 'media'. I've been looking at the Maxtor one-touch
80-300GB units (80GB is currently the max we backup, but this is going to
half when I do some restructuring), and would intend to purchase several of
these and swap them out on say a weekly basis. Does anyone have any
experience of these drives or similar? I don't want to use the one-touch
backup feature, I just want fast, external, hot-pluggable NTFS storage that
can easily be taken offsite and will work reliably on 2K server with Backup
Exec.
Any comments or suggestions would be gratefully accepted.
TIA,
Neil.
Our Sony tape drive/auto-loader broke again the other day, so I am looking
at alternate backup solutions. I really like the idea of using an external
USB2/Firewire hard disk instead of tape, but couldn't find any good
articles, comments or warnings on the web or in the newsgroups.
We currently use Backup Exec 9 to backup 3 Windows 2000 servers, with Open
File Option's and Exchange agent as neccessary. BE supports backup-to-disk
on removable media, so that should be fine, so now it just comes down to
finding the right 'media'. I've been looking at the Maxtor one-touch
80-300GB units (80GB is currently the max we backup, but this is going to
half when I do some restructuring), and would intend to purchase several of
these and swap them out on say a weekly basis. Does anyone have any
experience of these drives or similar? I don't want to use the one-touch
backup feature, I just want fast, external, hot-pluggable NTFS storage that
can easily be taken offsite and will work reliably on 2K server with Backup
Exec.
Any comments or suggestions would be gratefully accepted.
TIA,
Neil.