You may have read my note relating to adding a Win 2K Server to an existing Win NT 4 environment. We currently use a TR-4 tape drive in the Win NT server with Seagate Backup Exec for daily backups.
Are tape drives a dead duck? I've heard of local shops backing up to NAS and saying how much faster and better it is. I assume they mean drop an Iomega or similar network storage device onto the network and then just back up to that share every day. Does this sound reasonable and fairly reliable? I don't trust my tapes much anyway, so how much worse could it be?
Tell me a little about NAS. Is it just a hard drive or 2 in a box that you assign an IP address to and set up a share somehow? For a simple environment, why not just use NAS instead of a full-blown Win 2K Server? Probably security, authentication, and rights-rlated I would guess.
Thanks for any help!
- Bob
