Hi Folks,
I have been successfully using helix to image hard drives in some cases I have been investigating but my 500GB backup drive is quickly filling up.
Any recommendations on ways to archive 40Gb dd images? There is no way I will be able to get terabyte storage so it will probably end up being DVD's but was wondering how other people do it.
Cheers
Jon
Hi Folks,
I have been successfully using helix to image hard drives in some cases I have been investigating but my 500GB backup drive is quickly filling up.
Any recommendations on ways to archive 40Gb dd images? There is no way I will be able to get terabyte storage so it will probably end up being DVD's but was wondering how other people do it.
Cheers
Jon
Its probably not a lot of help to you but back up and storage considerations are mostly driven by budget (as with most other forensic hardware considerations).
When I first started out in my old unit we succesfully backed up to hard drives and/or DVD. Laterly the images went onto a server and archived to tape.
If you go down the DVD route you need to be mindful of how long they are going to be kept, where they are kept, could they get damaged etc etc.
Not a lot of help but food for thought D
Mark
Converting the dd images to .e01 and using the best compression may help. Often these images shrink down quite nicely (of course it depends on how full the disk is, etc.).
Good luck.
We compress DDs to TAR then back up to tape.
Greetings,
We tar and compress the entire case, including the images, and back them up to a standalone LTO 3 tape drive.
500GB SATA drives were going for $108US on sale the other day. I picked up four and built a 1.3TB RAID array in an afternoon and quickly increased our available work space for very little money.
-David