Anybody have any clever suggestions for an unattended server backup system that can handle a VERY dusty environment? I currently have (had) a Travan drive installed, since it's easy to deal with--just have somebody walk by and swap tapes periodically and otherwise forget about it.
Sadly, I didn't realize how much dust was going to be present in the environemnt (not exactly a climate-controlled server room--just the corner of an office), and the dust ended up destroying the Travan drive. Tapes are getting more and more archaic anyway, and Iomega REV drives aren't sealed, either, so the best thing I've come up with so far is a Firewire drive in an external enclosure.
Problem is, you need to do something with that sort of drive manually to get it to mount and unmount--not ideal for a server backup that's going to be swapped by office folk.
Does anybody have any good suggestions? (Incientally, this is initially for a PC runing Win Server 2003, but I'll be installing an XServe in a very similar--and similarly dusty--location soon, and am looking for the same thing for it.)
Sadly, I didn't realize how much dust was going to be present in the environemnt (not exactly a climate-controlled server room--just the corner of an office), and the dust ended up destroying the Travan drive. Tapes are getting more and more archaic anyway, and Iomega REV drives aren't sealed, either, so the best thing I've come up with so far is a Firewire drive in an external enclosure.
Problem is, you need to do something with that sort of drive manually to get it to mount and unmount--not ideal for a server backup that's going to be swapped by office folk.
Does anybody have any good suggestions? (Incientally, this is initially for a PC runing Win Server 2003, but I'll be installing an XServe in a very similar--and similarly dusty--location soon, and am looking for the same thing for it.)