[LINK] Navitaire was a Virgin, and now Blue as well

[Paul Brooks]

  On 12/10/2010 11:51 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
>
> All these fancy tape backup systems are great for companies/
> departments that can afford them but for home use?  Time machine makes
> it simple.  Although as a home user it is somewhat more problematical
> to do such a procedural test.
>
This home user has a small standalone NAS unit with a large HD for backups. Every 
machine/laptop/whatever in the house does a "complete" incremental/versioned backup of 
all drives etc over the LAN to the NAS every night, and the backups are verified and 
aged out against the machine's current disk contents every couple of months or so. An 
external harddrive is a whole pile faster/cheaper/bigger/safer/better than any tape 
solution I've found.

The kids trash their machine regularly enough, or lose a homework file, that the 
restore process is exercised a few times each year, by now I'm fairly confident its 
robust and well understood!

(This homeuser also has two laptops with work folders that are within a few days of 
being synchronised with the main system's  work folders - so I have alternate hardware 
platforms to engage with while any restore is taking place on the main system. As I 
understand it, that puts my robustness and availability a few rungs above Navitaire :-; )

cheers...

P.