Firewire Backup Options

[AAA guy]

I'm looking for a good backup system for our server. The Server files are just 20gb but I would like to get something that will last us for a couple of years and we can grow into. The server itself is a dual G4 running on the latest panther server software. Currently we are running Retrospect 5 on it and it backing up to a HP DLT drive but that combo is limited and full of problems so I'm looking to upgrade to retrospect 6 and would like to go with a firewire option instead of the SCSI. Any suggestions?

 

[Satcomer]

I'm going to suggest a couple of sites for you the explore before you comment. The Barefeats is a good speed test site. They test speed on most everything that connects to a Mac including Macs. Another really good site is xlr8YourMac. That site has a great lasso for firewire drives. The site has people posting from all around the world so their database seems to always have a comment from someone in the world who tried almost the same exact thing you want to.

 

[AAA guy]

I'm going to suggest a couple of sites for you the explore before you comment. The Barefeats is a good speed test site. They test speed on most everything that connects to a Mac including Macs. Another really good site is xlr8YourMac. That site has a great lasso for firewire drives. The site has people posting from all around the world so their database seems to always have a comment from someone in the world who tried almost the same exact thing you want to.

Thank you for the links. Speed isn't as much of a concern as reliability is. The backups are done overnights so I don't care if they take several hours. No one is effected by it. I am however concerned with the fact that things do get backed up when they are suppose to with little to no outside involvement. I just want to do weekly maintenance tasks, not daily configurations and checks that things do in fact get backed up that night.