Archive for March, 2005

a crazy little chart about the Bay Area

Recently on sage-members folks have been having a discussion about just how expensive it is to work in the Bay Area. I think Dustin Puryear started the thread as he’s thinking of moving from Louisiana. Anyway, someone posted the following link: Bill Manning’s Blog >> A crazy little chart about the Bay Area The numbers [...]

tape hardware, part two

While on the topic of tape hardware and backups… never mind my little DLT7000 drive at home. How do you back up a 4TB Titan NAS? We bought one of these servers at work last year; we’re finally getting around to using it for something. Our current challenge is trying to figure out how to [...]

upgrading tape hardware to DLT

After my girlfriend‘s Powerbook crashed, taking with it several months of her un-backed-up data, I decided enough was enough with my own antiquated backup hardware (ExaByte 8505 8mm tape drive, 5GB/10GB) and I bought a DLT7000 (35GB/70GB) drive off eBay, thus increasing my backup capability by seven times. With eight tapes, the whole adventure cost [...]

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