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Re: Why an XServe?=Backup strategies

Given the amount of data slogging around, backup technologies haven't kept up, so it gets awful expensive awful quickly to try to handle lots of data on a backup.

I think it was Chuq who wrote this, and I agree. One thing that would help in this regard (at least for my purposes) would be a DVD jukebox. PowerFile (www.powerfile.com) is supposed to be bringing a 200-disc DVD-RAM system to market "soon." (I first heard about PowerFile from an Apple OS X Server engineer at MWNY last year when we got into a discussion about just this issue.) For the PowerFile system to work well for me, though, it'd have to play nice with Retrospect, and that's apparently a longer development row to hoe. Sigh.

For data recovery situations, it seems like using hard drives as "removable" media has become cost-effective in most cases. For data archiving, though, I still prefer optical media, and I'd love it if there were an easier way to back up hundreds of gigs to DVD without a lot of user intervention.

-CTP
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