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Hey Scotty!
Hope all is well at school & with business! The two 1-TB drives in my drobo are almost full. If you remember, I have 4 bays but we set it up so I only use 2. I have a 3rd HD that I switch out to back up the first HD and keep a copy at home. I have under 95GB left...
So here's the question. Recently a tech at Drobo told me that it is REALLY HARD to recover information from the extra HD if something ever happened to my office/the drobo. He said I really need to be looking at a "grandfather" system (?) Since I'm running out of room, do I just take the 3rd HD and add it to the drobo and figure out another way to have an offsite backup? Frankly, I'm worried about the expense involved!! I need your recommendation and possibly some of your time to get this sorted out.
Thanks a ton!
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First, I would recommend filling those other two drive bays on the drobo with 2 more 1 TB drives. Newegg.com - Computer Hardware,Hard Drives,Internal Hard Drives,1TB and higher. This will grow your storage capacity imensely. Just go with a $90 choice or so.
Now to the issue of backing up the entire drobo itself. Since the drobo is failsafe within it's own data structure, you are really only trying to cover yourself in case of fire, flood, theft, etc... which is a really good idea. However the problem is that the drobo holds so much capacity that it makes it rather difficult to continue your current "swap out" stradegy. We may want to turn to an unlimited online backup plan. The only catch here is that most online backups limit you to the internal drive of the machine. Not externals. Here are two of the leaders:
Online Backup, Data Backup & Remote Backup Solutions from Mozy.com – Welcome
CarboniteInc
We'd need to go through the terms of use on each site to find the fine print. Online PC Backup: Simple, Secure. Automatic
At a glance, Mozy offers business backup as well for extended data I believe. Check it out here: MozyPro Remote Data Backup, Online Backup, and Internet Backup Solutions for Business - Mozy.com - MozyPro
Otherwise, our only other option is to Raid a couple of 2 TB drives together and clone the entire drobo (which would not be pretty) or get another drobo to swap out from time to time but that would be crazy as well.
Hope all is well at school & with business! The two 1-TB drives in my drobo are almost full. If you remember, I have 4 bays but we set it up so I only use 2. I have a 3rd HD that I switch out to back up the first HD and keep a copy at home. I have under 95GB left...
So here's the question. Recently a tech at Drobo told me that it is REALLY HARD to recover information from the extra HD if something ever happened to my office/the drobo. He said I really need to be looking at a "grandfather" system (?) Since I'm running out of room, do I just take the 3rd HD and add it to the drobo and figure out another way to have an offsite backup? Frankly, I'm worried about the expense involved!! I need your recommendation and possibly some of your time to get this sorted out.
Thanks a ton!
_______
First, I would recommend filling those other two drive bays on the drobo with 2 more 1 TB drives. Newegg.com - Computer Hardware,Hard Drives,Internal Hard Drives,1TB and higher. This will grow your storage capacity imensely. Just go with a $90 choice or so.
Now to the issue of backing up the entire drobo itself. Since the drobo is failsafe within it's own data structure, you are really only trying to cover yourself in case of fire, flood, theft, etc... which is a really good idea. However the problem is that the drobo holds so much capacity that it makes it rather difficult to continue your current "swap out" stradegy. We may want to turn to an unlimited online backup plan. The only catch here is that most online backups limit you to the internal drive of the machine. Not externals. Here are two of the leaders:
Online Backup, Data Backup & Remote Backup Solutions from Mozy.com – Welcome
CarboniteInc
We'd need to go through the terms of use on each site to find the fine print. Online PC Backup: Simple, Secure. Automatic
At a glance, Mozy offers business backup as well for extended data I believe. Check it out here: MozyPro Remote Data Backup, Online Backup, and Internet Backup Solutions for Business - Mozy.com - MozyPro
Otherwise, our only other option is to Raid a couple of 2 TB drives together and clone the entire drobo (which would not be pretty) or get another drobo to swap out from time to time but that would be crazy as well.
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