Re: USB Hard Drive

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

Also, if you go the external HD route (NAS or USB-via-intermediary-machine),
plan accordingly.  Not just for adequate space but for the other traditional
needs - retaining enough copies of your files, archiving for month- &
year-end backups and special-purpose backups, audit/legal mandates for
records retention, etc.  Check with your off-site vendor (recall, Iron
Mountain, etc.) to see if they have special requirements or different costs
for HD storage & transport.

If you back up to USB drives, you will need a fair number of them to handle
things.  If you back up to a NAS you'll need adequate NAS capacity + a way
to back it up since the NAS doesn't address off-site requirements.  Or have
a remote server that you can use as a repository to copy from the NAS/USB to
free it up but that winds up being a lot of copies of the data and keeping
things straight could be problematic if not managed well.

Backups are not just about having the ability to restore the system in the
event of a crash.  They are also used for meeting legal requirements,
restoring from "oops" events that might go undetected for weeks, meeting
client/vendor contractual obligations for data retention, off-site BCDR, and
so on.  Your backup mandate should be coming from the business, including
Legal and the departments that use the system, and be architected by IT to
meet the requirements.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:44 AM, William Luke
<william.luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Jake,
>
> Our company is doing this now.   On our test system 8203-E4A  V6R1
>
> You can save everything, but the OS and the LIC. These can only be saved to
> a unit that you can boot from.
> You can save license programs and all user objects.  The software runs in
> the QSYS environment and uses FTP to send the save files to a network
> attached USB drive.   We wrote the code in REX but the company will not let
> us send it to anyone because of a liability issue.  The REX code was only
> about 30 lines of code.
>
> On our network (which operates at only 100mb) it averaged ~ 3 minutes to
> back-up 1 GB of user objects with the i running nothing else at the time.
> This is about the same speed we see on our production I using LT04 tape
> when
> the system is active.
>
> I saw an ad from Iomega last week that they have a 2 and 4 TB Network
> Storage system USB and Ethernet with Raid 0 a Raid 1 for $370 and $670
> respectively.   I do not work for this company or sell these product.
>
> If you try this I recommend you test it extensively before you make this
> your primary system.
> Good luck
>
> Regards,
>
> William Luke
> Consultant, 239-214-2063
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jacob Anderson
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 6:00 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: USB Hard Drive
>
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone tried using a USB hard drive to do a backup/restore of V6R1? I
> want to do this on a 9405-520.
>
> Thanks
>
> -- Jake
>
>
>
>
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