Hello!
Small 3-people office here. As a daily backup for the server, we have been using so far a DAT72 internal USB tape drive; the amount of data is below 10G. Now, after about 11 years of honest service, the tape unit is failing (I guess worn tape heads) and I am wondering what to do.
A modern tape drive unit seems a bit overkill in terms of capacity and cost. I'm not even sure if the server has available SAS connections.
What is your experience for small offices, what would you suggest? Should I bite the bullet and replace the tape drive, or change backup strategy?
PS we have also a daily backup via BackupPC to an external NAS (two HDD in Raid) and periodically we do a full clone of the server using Affa to an old machine.