Need Suggestions for Automated Backup

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:

> Not really.  Most 'old school' folks still gravitate to tape for backup
> purposes, because it has a very long & reliable track record.

Don't know which school I belong to, but having been burned by tape way 
too many times, I couldn't in good conscience recommend it to anyone 
unless they had no other choice.

For someone with an "Enterprise-class" budget where they can afford the 
very best equipment and professional babysitters to watch over it, tape 
works great. For the rest of us with small budgets, weak discipline on 
media management, poor schedule habits, poor verification habits, tape 
is a recipe for disaster. Buy a shiny new tape drive today and 18 months 
from now when you come in the door and hear your hard drive making a 
noise like a CNC machine, that will be the time you'll find out your 
backups aren't. In such a hypothetical example, I give the tape less 
than a 25% chance of working flawlessly.

The SxS article entitled "Tapes, Just say NO!" 
(http://www.linux-sxs.org/parent.html) was what finally convinced me I 
was neither alone nor crazy.

Just my opinions,
Michael