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For backing up servers, a good tape drive is really the best way to go. From my experience, the smaller drives like what Iomega usually sold do wear out quickly if you run full backups every night. (I wore out several smaller drives in outside offices with small file server and only 3-5 workstations.) A drive made for business use, like an Exabyte VXA drive for example, will last and is very reliable. The best thing is tape backups are fully automated and the software will usually email you a report so each day so you know that your backups are working as they should Also, it is best to rotate multiple tapes should a tape or server fail while the backup is running. You can easily archive tapes monthly/quarterly should you want the ability to go back and look at data from a previous point.
BrianB
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