Re: backing up - RAID or tape drive?

[Ian <merk pacificnet net>]

At 08:29 PM 11/29/2002, you wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I appreciate that this is not quite the place to ask
> this question but if some of you out there would be
> willing to spend some time answering this question I
> would be very grateful.
>
> In a place where I do voluntary work we have got some
> money to buy a pc to act as a server.
>
> We want to back up our data.
>
> Someone has suggested using software RAID but I thought
> that a tape drive of some sort would be more appropriate
> for backing up.
>
> What do you guys N gals think.
>
> t.ir

do you want to do periodic backups so that you can restore the machine to 
what it was last week, or pull off data that was over-written? or do you 
want a backup just in case a hard drive fails?

if you just want protection against hard drive failure you can go with a 
raid. Otherwise, you should go with a tape backup, since a raid is a true 
backup solution. It can be used as one, but its not ideal. So which one you 
use really depends on what you want to do.

Ian