I have had bad luck with tape drives so I am looking for other hardware to use for backing up 50-100 GB of storage daily.
What have you used successfully and consistently (more than three months) or what do you recommend I use that is more reliable than a tape drive?
If you want more history and details you can keep reading. We are on our second Dell backup tape drive. It works pretty good for 3-4 months than it starts to have drive errors. No system changes happen during this time so I think it is just cheap and unreliable hardware. We are using Veritas 8.6 for the backup software.
One employee will take the latest tape back up home with them for the usually reasons. So hopefully the new solution will also have a way to keep a back up off site.
I have thought about an Iomega solution and an external hard drive solution, but I don’t know if multiple external hard drives are pratical.