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harddrives are more prone to damage when carried around...<br />
they are more bulky and take more space...
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harddrives are more prone to damage when carried around...
they are more bulky and take more space...

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I have a Faststor 7000 DLT on my Novell server and it takes about 12 hours and 3 tapes to (full) backup 120gigs. I was looking for another solution to backup my 3 Win2k servers. &nbsp;I have 2 Firewire drives (80-250GB) &nbsp;I hooked both of these up to my server and using Arcserve I am able to do incrementals on the 80 and full on the 250. &nbsp;It takes 3 hours to do full backup of 80GB. &nbsp;This seems far better than buying another DLT at $8000 and $1500+ worth of tapes. &nbsp;What are the down sides to this? &nbsp;I intended to buy another set of drives to rotate and take offsite. &nbsp;My other option is to buy a Promise IDE card and add 4 hot swap drives and add to spare server I have. &nbsp;Ideas?
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I have a Faststor 7000 DLT on my Novell server and it takes about 12 hours and 3 tapes to (full) backup 120gigs. I was looking for another solution to backup my 3 Win2k servers.  I have 2 Firewire drives (80-250GB)  I hooked both of these up to my server and using Arcserve I am able to do incrementals on the 80 and full on the 250.  It takes 3 hours to do full backup of 80GB.  This seems far better than buying another DLT at $8000 and $1500+ worth of tapes.  What are the down sides to this?  I intended to buy another set of drives to rotate and take offsite.  My other option is to buy a Promise IDE card and add 4 hot swap drives and add to spare server I have.  Ideas?

DLT vs Firewire and IDE drives

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