Can someone recommend . . .

Roadkill · October 19, 2007, 10:10:56 AM

Quoting: Deadmeat

nah this is for work, so we keep a copy off site incase of fire/aliens etc.

Ah, gotcha.

My last firm did that . . . once in awhile . . . when they remembered.

Quoting: 55starchief

Digital Tape drive then

They had one of those too, I think, but scrapped it because it was sh!te and unreliable.

55starchief · October 19, 2007, 10:13:30 AM

Quoting: Roadkill

They had one of those too, I think, but scrapped it because it was sh!te and unreliable.

My dad backs everything up to tape, infact they have a seperate tape for each day. If you dont backup and you loose all your company data its a pretty big problem. As far as i am aware they have never had a tape failure in the last 8 years. Mind you these arnt the old style tapes i think they hold like 80gb or something

Roadkill · October 19, 2007, 10:21:43 AM

My old place used to back up all our drawings (CAD) and the main computer fried.
When it came to replacing the lost info 2 out of the 5 tapes were shagged.
A specialist company wanted £££ to "possibly" recover some of the info on them - but made no guarantees . . .

Deadmeat · October 19, 2007, 10:22:58 AM

we used to use tape a few years ago. they sh!te and unreliable as roadkill says plus stupidly pricy for the such a small amount of data. our standard backup is well over 80Gb.

We have been using USB external drives very sucessfull the last few years but I was thinking a hot swapable would be a nice way of reducing the number of physical drives we have.

However instead I've decided to get a couple of ethernet NAS drives and do the same but faster.

55starchief · October 26, 2007, 05:10:08 AM

I just got me one of these

http://www.amazon.co.uk/LaCie-Ethernet-7200RPM-Gigabit-Poulton/dp/B000NPJ6ZW/ref=sr_1_2/203-7635128-5979946?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1193389164&sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.amazon.co.uk/LaCie-Ethernet-7200RPM-Gigabit-Poulton/dp/B000NPJ6ZW/ref=sr_1_2/203-7635128-5979946?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1193389164&sr=8-2

with the drive running mirrored i should have 500gb which is more than enough to back up my machines and get my FTP working again

Fieldy · October 26, 2007, 05:34:07 AM

I've got the 'Icy Box'. Very decent, I have everything on there, simple, and pretty wit the lights!
I have dropped it before A few times, even has A few bashes, It has travelled work, studio etc many times, bashed about there too, works perfect still everytime even after 2 years. Well worth the money I paid for it.

55starchief · October 26, 2007, 05:37:48 AM

Quoting: Fieldy

It has travelled work, studio etc many times

Thats why i want my FTP working again, who needs the hassle of carting a drive around when you can simply access all your files from any PC or MAC any where in the world

Pod · October 26, 2007, 06:08:13 AM

Quoting: 55starchief

Thats why i want my FTP working again

You might want to use SFTP instead of poverty spec FTP.
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol)

Unless of course, you're happy with the whole internet having access to your password and files....

55starchief · October 26, 2007, 06:25:02 AM

Quoting: Pod

You might want to use SFTP instead of poverty spec \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ftp.

Yeah i think thats what i had my router set to on the port forwarding the last time i had the FTP running

Roadkill · October 27, 2007, 12:00:59 PM

Not worried about it being portable . . . It'll live in its box most of the time . . I'll just pull it out once a month to back up . . .

55starchief · October 27, 2007, 12:31:00 PM

Well i have my 1TB drive installed can see it on the network just need to solve the FTP issues

ianjpage · October 27, 2007, 02:15:25 PM

as i said simple option is a nice USB 2 hard drive, my 120gb one was 50 quid from EBuyer - easy option!!

Roadkill · October 29, 2007, 06:40:54 AM

Quoting: ianjpage

as i said simple option is a nice USB 2 hard drive, my 120gb one was 50 quid from EBuyer - easy option!!

Linky ?

ianjpage · October 29, 2007, 07:25:34 AM

Quoting: Roadkill

Linky ?

Link to the category
http://www.ebuyer.com/search/?strSearch=&bolShowAll=true&intStoreID=2&intCatID=4&intSubcatUID=1813&bolShowAll=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ebuyer.com/search/?strSearch=&bolShowAll=true&intStoreID=2&intCatID=4&intSubcatUID=1813&bolShowAll=true

link to similar model (smaller size) as the one i got
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/113876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.ebuyer.com/product/113876

Roadkill · October 29, 2007, 09:41:45 AM

Hmm, 80G would be cutting it fine . . . . the 120G seems the better bet.

Anyone got a ebuyer account I can hijack ?

ianjpage · October 29, 2007, 12:50:43 PM

Quoting: Roadkill

Hmm, 80G would be cutting it fine . . . . the 120G seems the better bet.

yeah hence why i got the 120!!

Quoting: Roadkill

Anyone got a ebuyer account I can hijack ?

Yup

Roadkill · October 30, 2007, 04:44:25 AM

Quoting: ianjpage

Yup

If I sort you some cash on Sunday can you order me one ?

ianjpage · October 30, 2007, 05:06:08 AM

Quoting: Roadkill

Yup

If I sort you some cash on Sunday can you order me one ?

yup no probs - PM me yer postcode and house no and ill get it delivered to ya¬

Roadkill · October 30, 2007, 05:13:55 AM

ianjpage · October 30, 2007, 05:46:40 AM

U got pm with choices!!

Roadkill · October 30, 2007, 05:51:24 AM

Replied.

ianjpage · October 30, 2007, 05:54:44 AM

Replied to your reply

Roadkill · October 30, 2007, 10:23:15 AM

Quoting: ianjpage

Replied to your reply

and then

Again.

ianjpage · October 30, 2007, 12:14:25 PM

ok likewise replied to yours as well

Roadkill · November 03, 2007, 08:34:08 AM

Backed up my documents today. Appears to have been successful.