EWTHeckman Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 (edited) I've been looking at the costs for backup media. It looks like hard drives have finally reached the magic breakeven point with tape. So now I'm looking at recommending that a client uses hard drives in a point multiplier case for backup instead of tape. But I just want to confirm that this should work. I've found the part in the documentation where "Media Handling Preferences" includes the option to "Use FireWire/USB hard drives as removable disks". I haven't seen it explicitly stated anywhere, but it does seem to be implied that this option also applies to eSATA drives. Is this actually the case? In case it matters: I'm looking at drives in a FirmTek PM5 enclosure attached to a RocketRaid 2522 or 2314MP card. (The enclosure and cards use the Port Multiplier feature to connect multiple drives via a single cable.) Edited August 10, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 Are you on Macintosh or Windows? The option you talk about is for the Mac version only I believe. All hard disks are supported in Retrospect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWTHeckman Posted August 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 They're currently using a Windows machine as the Retrospect server. They might be able to use an Xserve as the Retrospect server if necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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