Re: Installathon Backup Solution (?)

[Andy Zobro <ajzobro@xxxxxxx>]

Not everyone has a modern computer, and IDE to IDE transfers are going
to be faster.

Also, I wasn't thinking of shoving a hard drive into each person's
computer but rather have a dedicated backup machine.

I don't know what our budget is for buying enclosures and drives.  Mary
said Office Max has a deal right now on 160 GB drives...

- AZ

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 13:50, Adam Jaskiewicz wrote:
> My suggestion was that we purchase a few USB/Firewire combo enclosures  
> and some 250GiB drives or something to shove in them. Firewire is  
> decently fast for transferring large amounts of stuff. 400 Mb/sec is  
> quite quick, especially since Firewire can sustain pretty well (meant  
> for large video files and such).
> 
> This would work for most people. Any modern computer is going to have  
> either USB 2.0 or Firewire, if not both, and even if they are limited  
> to USB 1.1, a few things can be transfered (much slower). For people  
> with USB 1.1 that have a lot of stuff to save, or people with older  
> computers (heck, my Pentium 233MMX has USB 1.1) can stuff the drive on  
> a spare IDE connector and copy stuff over.
> 
> The drives can be sold to people after the Install-a-thon, perhaps, and  
> maybe we can stick one into the server.
> 
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> On Oct 12, 2004, at 13:14, Andy Zobro wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I want to know exactly what our plan is for the backup of people's
> > hard drives.  If we are doing data backup and recovery then I'd like to
> > know the method we have chosen.
> >
> > What I'm used to having for disk backups is:
> > a) A dedicated machine with a very large hard drive in it to store the
> > disk images on.  A copy of Norton Ghost to make the backup images.  A
> > lot of time.  (Ghost is almost a requirement for moving a window's
> > installation)
> > b) A cd-rw drive and just burn the important stuff
> > c) Another hard drive and copy:
> >    - in windows, the important data
> >    - in linux, the entire file system
> > d) for laptops: (a) and a laptop IDE adapter
> >
> > So, who's hard drive(s) are we using...
> > Actually I don't even know what questions to ask, I recall something
> > about usb... but usb is way slower than sticking a hard drive in a
> > machine.
> >
> > So, please enlighten me if you know more.
> >
> > - AZ
> >
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