[s-cars] NAC- need advice on photo workstation, RAID and some other ???s

[Theodore Chen]

--- Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Also, what do you think about the EMC Retrospect backup software?

i was going to suggest that (although i have to add a disclaimer that
i work for EMC and managing the intellectual property portfolio for
retrospect is one of my responsibilities).

IMHO, it's a great solution, far better than using MS backup.  it
offers you the ability to set backup windows, and you can keep multiple
versions.  you can schedule incremental, differential, and full backups.
this protects you against data changes or corruption caused by the 
application (which RAID isn't going to).  disk space is very cheap 
these days.  i'd probably set up an old machine as a disk farm
by filling it with 300GB hard drives ($90 each these days) and i'd 
just do backup to disk.

-teddy


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