I have not used SATA, but I have a suggestion - use a tapeless backup service. It is sweet. We tried out 3 online backup service providers over a 14 month period, and finally ended up with Subterranean Data Services because they use byte level technology for backups instead of incremntial. Their web site is
www.remote-online-backup.com . We only backup up our mission critical data with them, which was 342MB compressed. Because of the "byte level" technology they use for daily backups, our backup monthly storage size was onluy 384MB after 6 months. I think they call "byte level" Delta techunology. Anyhow, the other 2 online backup providers we tried out used incremntial technology for daily backups. Our 342MB grew to 4GB plus in 7 months, and was still climbing. We still do a full backup on tape though, but only every 4-6 weeks. Oh, we pay $26.95 a month for the service. Way less than what we were spending on daily tape backups when we added labour in. Hope that helps.
