Has anybody used USB hard drives as backup devices instead of tape?
We’re staring at $15k to replace a broken tape library, but it seems to me that we could get a lot more for our money with the USB hard drives. They currently come in up to 400 gig sizes, which is more than enough to do a full backup of our entire network, so I was thinking this might be the way to go. I figure one a month for full (or two, when our data grows), and one or two to hold the incrementals between fulls. Of course, the drives would be treated just like tapes (offsite storage, etc).
What do you think, concept wise?
