I recently adopted the following strategy (I sick and tired of using tapes).

Purchased:

1. Plextor PX-W4824TA internal CD-RW
2. Two Maxtor 5000LE USB drives
3. Dantz Retrospect 6.5
4. Nero Burning ROM, downloaded InCD

I have about 64GB of capacity on internal SCSI drives.
Each Maxtor drive has 80 GB capacity.

Strategy is to alternate using the Maxtor drives and not connecting, or
plugging in, either when not being used.
Retrospect allows the creation of a bootable disaster recovery CD-ROM.

The above was for a multiboot Win 98/Win 2000 PC. I've formatted the USB
drives as NTFS, so I won't backing up from Win 98.

I expect that an analogous strategy is available for the Mac, as Retrospect
was originally developed for the Mac.

--
http://www.standards.com/; Howard Kaikow's web site.
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"Sy" <sytech[at]yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:sytech-C816B1.08101001072003[at]rcache2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net...
> I recently had a crash that caused me lots of problems .
>
> I am now back up and running on my Mac G4 running System 9.1. My main
> internal HD is 80GB. I generally only need about 15 GB (max) for
> storage. I have another internal HD which is 20 GB and I've also
> purchased an 80 GB external HD which I can easily disconnect and store
> in another location.
>
>
> I need a backup strategy that's simple and efficient. Any suggestions
> will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sy
>

Has anyone tried to use Retrospect's multiple DVD option? I've got
iMovie's that are close to 70 GBs. Needless to say, I'm running out of
room on my hard drives (I've got about 250 GB of iMovie & iDVD
projects). If I upgraded to a 4x DVD, in theory I could see 5.5 MB/s
(or 19 GB/hr) per each of 15 DVDs required. I've seen the exabyte
VXA-2's advertised holding 80 GB (uncompressed) and load at 6 MB/s (21
GB/hr).

With the VXA-2 tapes, I could run a backup overnight (probably 4-5 hours
of actual time); with the DVDs, I'd have to stay with it for 5+ hours.
On the other hand, buying a internal VXA-2 + SCSI card would set me back
over $1K, while a newer DVD drive would only be $200-300Š

Thanks,

Mark
marc[at]mac.com

> I recently adopted the following strategy (I sick and tired of using tapes).
>
> Purchased:
>
> 1. Plextor PX-W4824TA internal CD-RW
> 2. Two Maxtor 5000LE USB drives
> 3. Dantz Retrospect 6.5
> 4. Nero Burning ROM, downloaded InCD
>
> I have about 64GB of capacity on internal SCSI drives.
> Each Maxtor drive has 80 GB capacity.
>
> Strategy is to alternate using the Maxtor drives and not connecting, or
> plugging in, either when not being used.
> Retrospect allows the creation of a bootable disaster recovery CD-ROM.
>
> The above was for a multiboot Win 98/Win 2000 PC. I've formatted the USB
> drives as NTFS, so I won't backing up from Win 98.
>
> I expect that an analogous strategy is available for the Mac, as Retrospect
> was originally developed for the Mac.
>
> --
> http://www.standards.com/; Howard Kaikow's web site.
> ------------------------------------------------
> "Sy" <sytech[at]yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:sytech-C816B1.08101001072003[at]rcache2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net...
> > I recently had a crash that caused me lots of problems .
> >
> > I am now back up and running on my Mac G4 running System 9.1. My main
> > internal HD is 80GB. I generally only need about 15 GB (max) for
> > storage. I have another internal HD which is 20 GB and I've also
> > purchased an 80 GB external HD which I can easily disconnect and store
> > in another location.
> >
> >
> > I need a backup strategy that's simple and efficient. Any suggestions
> > will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Sy
> >
>
>