dvanhoozer Posted May 29, 2002 Report Share Posted May 29, 2002 HOT swappable USB/firewire hard disk drives are sufficiently cheap these days. Its becomeing common practice within my shop to use these things as removable media. Sure wish Retrospect would recognize them as removable media and allow backupsets to span hot swappable volumes. Dewayne o-* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcarter27 Posted February 13, 2003 Report Share Posted February 13, 2003 Ditto on this. The nature of "removable media" is changing fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syzygies Posted February 19, 2003 Report Share Posted February 19, 2003 I use a Granite Digital enclosure (FireWire, $200) which accepts $30 cases providing a fan and wiring for IDE drives. 120 GB IDE drives are approaching $1 per GB. I have a number of such drives dedicated to backup. I've had variable luck with tape, VXA tape is now my favorite but they all end up in the shop eventually. Tape is easier to leave "off site". Never had an IDE drive fail, and they're fast. So this suggestion sounds like a great idea for large shops. For me, my backup sets stay on one disk except when I hit Retrospect's time zone bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 With the release of Retrospect 6.0, you can now now span multiple hard drives in backup operations. The improved "Disk" backup feature allows Retrospect to use hard drive space as removable media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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