Re: What to use for secondary backup?

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I haven't used Rev drives but I have had so many bad experiences with Iomega products over the years I will not be bitten by them again.

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Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
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"Richard K" <RichardK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:03D38657-3FDE-43D4-9535-549C093D9325@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Take a look at the IOMega Rev drives. You can get a kit of a drive and 6
disks for under $500, each new disk costs around $50. The Rev drives come in
35gb and 70gb native format so plenty large enough. I've been using them for
a while now and they work great and much more convenient to take offsite
since the Rev disks are small (almost same size as a Zip disk)

"Kerry Brown" wrote:

"Dan O" <DanO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A574F3E4-0C7F-4033-979A-ED5D8B6A4BA2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a backup job running twice a week. Each time it generates a 9GB
>file,
> which it places on another partition. Since that file is too large to > even
> fit on a dual layer DVD, I assume I only have two choices.
>
> 1. tape drive - seems pricey
> 2. attach a USB HD and back up to that. have the secretary pull it out > of
> the fire safe on Friday and plug it in. Come in Monday and put it back > in
> the
> safe. Job runs over the weekend to copy all the backups from the
> partition
> to the USB HD.
>
> Any other ideas or comments?
>


More than one USB HD and store them off site.

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Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca




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