Author Topic: Can someone recommend . . . (Read 2790 times)

Roadkill · « **Reply #25 on:** October 19, 2007, 02:10:56 pm »

Quoting: Deadmeat

nah this is for work, so we keep a copy off site incase of fire/aliens etc.

Ah, gotcha.

My last firm did that . . . once in awhile . . . when they remembered.

Quoting: 55starchief

Digital Tape drive then

They had one of those too, I think, but scrapped it because it was sh!te and unreliable.

55starchief · « **Reply #26 on:** October 19, 2007, 02:13:30 pm »

Quoting: Roadkill

They had one of those too, I think, but scrapped it because it was sh!te and unreliable.

My dad backs everything up to tape, infact they have a seperate tape for each day. If you dont backup and you loose all your company data its a pretty big problem. As far as i am aware they have never had a tape failure in the last 8 years. Mind you these arnt the old style tapes i think they hold like 80gb or something

Roadkill · « **Reply #27 on:** October 19, 2007, 02:21:43 pm »

My old place used to back up all our drawings (CAD) and the main computer fried.
When it came to replacing the lost info 2 out of the 5 tapes were shagged.
A specialist company wanted £££ to "possibly" recover some of the info on them - but made no guarantees . . .

Deadmeat · « **Reply #28 on:** October 19, 2007, 02:22:58 pm »

we used to use tape a few years ago. they sh!te and unreliable as roadkill says plus stupidly pricy for the such a small amount of data. our standard backup is well over 80Gb.

We have been using USB external drives very sucessfull the last few years but I was thinking a hot swapable would be a nice way of reducing the number of physical drives we have.

However instead I've decided to get a couple of ethernet NAS drives and do the same but faster.

55starchief · « **Reply #29 on:** October 26, 2007, 09:10:08 am »

I just got me one of these

http://www.amazon.co.uk/LaCie-Ethernet-7200RPM-Gigabit-Poulton/dp/B000NPJ6ZW/ref=sr_1_2/203-7635128-5979946?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1193389164&sr=8-2

with the drive running mirrored i should have 500gb which is more than enough to back up my machines and get my FTP working again

Fieldy · « **Reply #30 on:** October 26, 2007, 09:34:07 am »

I've got the 'Icy Box'. Very decent, I have everything on there, simple, and pretty wit the lights!
I have dropped it before A few times, even has A few bashes, It has travelled work, studio etc many times, bashed about there too, works perfect still everytime even after 2 years. Well worth the money I paid for it.

55starchief · « **Reply #31 on:** October 26, 2007, 09:37:48 am »

Quoting: Fieldy

It has travelled work, studio etc many times

Thats why i want my FTP working again, who needs the hassle of carting a drive around when you can simply access all your files from any PC or MAC any where in the world

Pod · « **Reply #32 on:** October 26, 2007, 10:08:13 am »

Quoting: 55starchief

Thats why i want my FTP working again

You might want to use SFTP instead of poverty spec FTP.
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol)

Unless of course, you're happy with the whole internet having access to your password and files....

55starchief · « **Reply #33 on:** October 26, 2007, 10:25:02 am »

Quoting: Pod

You might want to use SFTP instead of poverty spec \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ftp.

Yeah i think thats what i had my router set to on the port forwarding the last time i had the FTP running

Roadkill · « **Reply #34 on:** October 27, 2007, 04:00:59 pm »

Not worried about it being portable . . . It'll live in its box most of the time . . I'll just pull it out once a month to back up . . .

55starchief · « **Reply #35 on:** October 27, 2007, 04:31:00 pm »

Well i have my 1TB drive installed can see it on the network just need to solve the FTP issues

ianjpage · « **Reply #36 on:** October 27, 2007, 06:15:25 pm »

as i said simple option is a nice USB 2 hard drive, my 120gb one was 50 quid from EBuyer - easy option!!

Roadkill · « **Reply #37 on:** October 29, 2007, 10:40:54 am »

Quoting: ianjpage

as i said simple option is a nice USB 2 hard drive, my 120gb one was 50 quid from EBuyer - easy option!!

Linky ?

ianjpage · « **Reply #38 on:** October 29, 2007, 11:25:34 am »

Quoting: Roadkill

Linky ?

Link to the category
http://www.ebuyer.com/search/?strSearch=&bolShowAll=true&intStoreID=2&intCatID=4&intSubcatUID=1813&bolShowAll=true

link to similar model (smaller size) as the one i got
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/113876

Roadkill · « **Reply #39 on:** October 29, 2007, 01:41:45 pm »

Hmm, 80G would be cutting it fine . . . . the 120G seems the better bet.

Anyone got a ebuyer account I can hijack ?

ianjpage · « **Reply #40 on:** October 29, 2007, 04:50:43 pm »

Quoting: Roadkill

Hmm, 80G would be cutting it fine . . . . the 120G seems the better bet.

yeah hence why i got the 120!!

Quoting: Roadkill

Anyone got a ebuyer account I can hijack ?

Yup

Roadkill · « **Reply #41 on:** October 30, 2007, 08:44:25 am »

Quoting: ianjpage

Yup

If I sort you some cash on Sunday can you order me one ?

ianjpage · « **Reply #42 on:** October 30, 2007, 09:06:08 am »

Quoting: Roadkill

Yup

If I sort you some cash on Sunday can you order me one ?

yup no probs - PM me yer postcode and house no and ill get it delivered to ya¬

Roadkill · « **Reply #43 on:** October 30, 2007, 09:13:55 am »

ianjpage · « **Reply #44 on:** October 30, 2007, 09:46:40 am »

U got pm with choices!!

Roadkill · « **Reply #45 on:** October 30, 2007, 09:51:24 am »

Replied.

ianjpage · « **Reply #46 on:** October 30, 2007, 09:54:44 am »

Replied to your reply

Roadkill · « **Reply #47 on:** October 30, 2007, 02:23:15 pm »

Quoting: ianjpage

Replied to your reply

and then

Again.

ianjpage · « **Reply #48 on:** October 30, 2007, 04:14:25 pm »

ok likewise replied to yours as well

Roadkill · « **Reply #49 on:** November 03, 2007, 12:34:08 pm »

Backed up my documents today. Appears to have been successful.