philcebutv Posted April 12, 2009 Report Share Posted April 12, 2009 Hi, I am looking for a tape backup Solution. We are a small creative team and wanted to have a tape backup solution. Any devices that people can recommend? Probably we are only backing up current work files around 40-80 GB per 2 weeks and user's email around 50GB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philcebutv Posted April 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 (edited) hi any advice from anyone which tape device is less problematic when it comes to using retrospect. I know there is a page o retrospect site where if the tape device is compatible or not. But I wanted to hear those who have experience already on retrospect and which tape device they are using.. anyone wants to share? Edited April 27, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philcebutv Posted April 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 (edited) has anyone tried RDX drives or REV drives? are these god enough for an offsite backup? Edited April 29, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philw_trs Posted May 12, 2009 Report Share Posted May 12, 2009 (edited) Avoid the REVs - in my previous life as a consultant/support technician they just seemed to fail over the place - had a lot of success with the RDX though - excellent product... Generally had (and still have) most success with Tandberg/Exabyte stuff - great support too... Edited May 12, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philcebutv Posted June 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2009 can you elaborate more on fail of REV drive? how does it fail? during the backup? or restore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philcebutv Posted July 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 We ended up buying the REV technology. The speed was really like nice (USB2.0 speed) when backing up using retrospect and we are happy at the moment. However we wanted to utilize the size of each cartridges more efficiently, currently we are backing up without compressing and easily get the cartridges filled up. Is compressing advisable? has anyone had experience with compressing the data when backing up using retrospect? I found an option in retrospect if I'm not mistaken that you can compress the data when backing up.. How reliable is it specially when restoring? would it take twice the time of backing/restore up since it will compress the data? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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