Need a backup strategy

[Sy]

I recently had a crash that caused me lots of problems .

I am now back up and running on my Mac G4 running System 9.1. My main
internal HD is 80GB. I generally only need about 15 GB (max) for
storage. I have another internal HD which is 20 GB and I've also
purchased an 80 GB external HD which I can easily disconnect and store
in another location.

I need a backup strategy that's simple and efficient. Any suggestions
will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Sy

[Bill B. Johnson]

In article <sytech-C816B1....@rcache2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>, Sy
<syt...@yahoo.com> wrote:

This is my backup strategy. You may want to follow my example.
About once a month or at least once every three months, I start up my
external drive. I initialize it and transfer everything from the internal
to the external. I should note that I run Norton's Disk Doctor on the
internal to make sure there are no problems with the internal.
Once last year--I had a major problem with the internal drive that I could
not solve. I initialized the internal drive and transfered everything on
the external backup drive to the internal drive. If you email me, I can
send you more detailed instuctions.

[Howard Kaikow]

I recently adopted the following strategy (I sick and tired of using tapes).

Purchased:

1. Plextor PX-W4824TA internal CD-RW
2. Two Maxtor 5000LE USB drives
3. Dantz Retrospect 6.5
4. Nero Burning ROM, downloaded InCD

I have about 64GB of capacity on internal SCSI drives.
Each Maxtor drive has 80 GB capacity.

Strategy is to alternate using the Maxtor drives and not connecting, or
plugging in, either when not being used.
Retrospect allows the creation of a bootable disaster recovery CD-ROM.

The above was for a multiboot Win 98/Win 2000 PC. I've formatted the USB
drives as NTFS, so I won't backing up from Win 98.

I expect that an analogous strategy is available for the Mac, as Retrospect
was originally developed for the Mac.

--
http://www.standards.com/; Howard Kaikow's web site.
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[Adam Drew]

Sy wrote:

Since you already have an external drive, this may not be applicable to
you, but here's what we use and it works great.

We bought a 250GB ABSPlus FireWire drive from CMSProducts to back up our
G4 server that has two 120GB drives in it. It came with some software
that can backup everything daily, weekly, monthly, whatever. It is
quick, and after the initial copy of everything, daily backups are fast,
with only new or modified files being copied over.

What's cool about it is that it backs up _everything_ automatically, so
if one of the internal drives fails we can take the drive out of its
case, install it in the G4 and boot from it until we get a replacement
drive. Previously we backed up to tape, but that got to be a pain with
today's large hard disks.

Their website is www.cmsproducts.com if this sounds like something any
of y'all could use...and no, I don't work for 'em. ;)

Adam

[Mark Dawson]

Has anyone tried to use Retrospect's multiple DVD option? I've got
iMovie's that are close to 70 GBs. Needless to say, I'm running out of
room on my hard drives (I've got about 250 GB of iMovie & iDVD
projects). If I upgraded to a 4x DVD, in theory I could see 5.5 MB/s
(or 19 GB/hr) per each of 15 DVDs required. I've seen the exabyte
VXA-2's advertised holding 80 GB (uncompressed) and load at 6 MB/s (21
GB/hr).

With the VXA-2 tapes, I could run a backup overnight (probably 4-5 hours
of actual time); with the DVDs, I'd have to stay with it for 5+ hours.
On the other hand, buying a internal VXA-2 + SCSI card would set me back
over $1K, while a newer DVD drive would only be $200-300Š

Thanks,

Mark
ma...@mac.com