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Looking for best the way to back up an office machine.(daily)

USB External drive any recommendations?

maybe something with future options Esata, Firewire?

In message <gerqeb$v23$>, Craig Sutton wrote:

> Looking for best the way to back up an office machine.(daily)

How about automatically copying stuff to a server volume over the network?

> USB External drive any recommendations?

Get an enclosure, put in a drive of your choice.

> maybe something with future options Esata, Firewire?

USB is the present, eSATA seems to be the future, not sure there's much need
for FireWire in this case.

"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <_zealand> wrote in message
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> In message <gerqeb$v23$>, Craig Sutton wrote:
>
>> Looking for best the way to back up an office machine.(daily)
>
> How about automatically copying stuff to a server volume over the network?
>

Its only the one pc being backed up

>> USB External drive any recommendations?
>
> Get an enclosure, put in a drive of your choice.
>

any recommendation? model brand etc.

How about units such as the seagate Freeagent?


>> maybe something with future options Esata, Firewire?
>
> USB is the present, eSATA seems to be the future, not sure there's much
> need
> for FireWire in this case.

Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Craig Sutton" typed:
>>> USB External drive any recommendations?
>
> any recommendation? model brand etc.
>
> How about units such as the seagate Freeagent?

From what I hear through the grapevine the Seagate FreeAgent external drives
aren't very good, especially when it comes to eSATA inplimentation. Current
wisdom seems to be that putting a Seagate drive into a Vantec NexStar 3
enclosure http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspeci...?ItemID=345450 is
about the best setup. I have a NexStar 3 sitting in my "Shopping cart" at
Ascent, just waiting for the funds to buy it.

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"~misfit~" <> wrote in message
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> Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Craig Sutton" typed:
>>>> USB External drive any recommendations?
>>
>> any recommendation? model brand etc.
>>
>> How about units such as the seagate Freeagent?
>
> From what I hear through the grapevine the Seagate FreeAgent external
> drives aren't very good, especially when it comes to eSATA inplimentation.
> Current wisdom seems to be that putting a Seagate drive into a Vantec
> NexStar 3 enclosure
> http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspeci...?ItemID=345450 is about
> the best setup. I have a NexStar 3 sitting in my "Shopping cart" at
> Ascent, just waiting for the funds to buy it.
>

That sounds good is there a model that also has ethernet?
USB2/Esata/Ethernet would be ultimate without going into the OMG price
range.

Craig Sutton wrote:
> Looking for best the way to back up an office machine.(daily)
>
> USB External drive any recommendations?
>
> maybe something with future options Esata, Firewire?
>

An ethernet attached one so it can be left physically remote from the
machine being backed up.

"EMB" <> wrote in message news:4911e8bb$...
> Craig Sutton wrote:
>> Looking for best the way to back up an office machine.(daily)
>>
>> USB External drive any recommendations?
>>
>> maybe something with future options Esata, Firewire?
>>
>
> An ethernet attached one so it can be left physically remote from the
> machine being backed up.

Yes handy but most likely device would be removed from the premises daily.

I think I see one at pp.co.nz with USB and Ethernet but no Esata?

more looking required..

In message <ges0ch$3b3$>, Craig Sutton wrote:

> USB2/Esata/Ethernet would be ultimate without going into the OMG price
> range.

Ethernet would require some kind of network protocol--now you're talking a
NAS device, not just an external hard drive.

In article <gerqeb$v23$>,
says...
> Looking for best the way to back up an office machine.(daily)
>
> USB External drive any recommendations?
>
> maybe something with future options Esata, Firewire?

I think your choice between a removable USB notebook drive vs. 3.5"
(normal) drive based USB device, is their respective capacity - and how
much data you have to backup.

IMO, you need at bare minimum, two of - so you are rotating the media at
least once.

Don't forget your capacity requirements on the drives might depend on
any decision to store "a few backups" on each device (ie not just one
(day's) worth).

I've had no problems with a number of manufactures - they've all worked,
and worked well - using backup s/w such as ntbackup and image based
products (Paragon Drive Backup and Acronis True Image).

--
Duncan

On Nov 5, 10:56*pm, "Craig Sutton" <xcxcnxxn...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> Looking for best the way to back up an office machine.(daily)

You imply a hard disc backup, daily. This has the obvious flaw that
if you screw your data one day, but only discover the fact the next,
you may have overwritten the backup you need.

Regards, John