Back Up Options

you may want to consider backing up to hdd's. both veritas and ca(brightstor) have the option to back up what looks like a tape image to hard drive. the current buzz with tapes is that after a backup the tape is removed from site (this complies withISO 9001 regs). Spending $2000.00 plus for a tape drive is too much for a small business not interested in ISO, other than that external hard drives in both USB and Firewire are very reasonable compared to tape machines. You said you have veritas, contact them and see if they can recommend a hdd routine for you. If you are a small business also look at drive image pro and ghost(symantec) for backup solutions.

if it's hp, it's still under warranty. plus what if they (management or who ever) wants to access data 3 months ago? you need to have the same tape device to access that info. so basically if you change, it throws all your backups out the door. anywyas if you want to upgrade, arcserve is okay, for about $500 you can get the workgroup edition. either way you still need to fix that drive. and i also recommend going to a differential or incremental backup scheme. it'll prolong the life of you drive and tapes.

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