Re: X-Serve Backup
Now that's a man who loves his data!!!
The problem being the same one I'm facing. Backup to disk is fast convenient and, at the moment, arguably, the most inexpensive. It's all in one place though. A good fire and you have nothing. LTO seems to fit the bill for the biggest wad of removable data storage that can go in a safe or off to another plant. I always have two levels of redundancy in my tapes. Tape is insidious and will ball up in the read head for sure if you ever have just one copy.
Retrospect has taken a serious downhill ride since being bought EMC, in my opinion. "Back in the day" it was easy and reliable, though a bit pokey on the restores. Now, the GUI is way to complicated and "Veritasy" and occasionally it just errors out. Still, there's not a lot of alternatives that look better.