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try telling that to my boss :lol: he'll have a fit at a grand, but I agree its a small price to pay if you lost all the data

My mate thought about having a separate computer connected and somehow automatically transfering the data across at a night time say when the load wouldnt affect anything. It must involve a similar program to what your talking about visibleman, anyone shed any light on this possibility??

Cheers Mark

In terms of network security and peace of mind, that is cheap ;)

get a network storage device. My bro uses one at work to store all of his mp3s and consists of 2x250 gig drives raided. Works quite well and its fairly small (size of box folder, maybe smaller) and you could write a small programme that will update files at the end of every day to that network drive :) Then you can unplug it and wack it in the safe or something :thumbs:
however, there not cheap, about 500 - 1000 quid :(

USB 250GB hard drive, plug in back up take home.

You can still use RAID, using external hard drives or storage servers. These can be linked via SCSI cables.

Alternatively, you could purchase some external FireWire or USB hard-drives and backup onto those. You could easily run this into a more secure storage location, or even have it connected to another machine and the backup created over the network.

How much money u got to spend. i'd use Veritas. it has a buuilt in remote backup feature meaning u can back up data from another machine on the network on to a dat tape. :)

we use this software at work :thumbs:

floppy disk

anyone?? :boggle:

ok heres the situation. At work I have a small network (10 or so computers) running on server 2003. What I would like to do now I have the network in place is to sort something out to backup the servers HDD. I thought about using raid but my only concern is that if baking up using raid the other "backup" HDD's have to be in the same case as the main HDD and if the computer gets stolen (little chance I know but wanna cover all angels) then the original data plus the raid backup will be lost. Is there anyway that I can backup the server up automatically across the network somehow?? Or any other suggestions would go down a treat

Cheers Mark :thumbs:


[Edited on 07-04-2004 by Melville]