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Mon Mar 10 15:32:33 UTC 2008



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From: "Mike Holden" <mythtv at mikeholden.org>
> Steve Smith wrote:
> > On a related note... HOW do you backup 500gb of data these days? Is a
> > spare drive really the most cost effective method?
> 
> I have a Linksys NSLU2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 with plenty of
> disk in a USB2 enclosure. It's cheap, low power, small, and can do other
> stuff like dns, dhcp, ntp etc.
> 
> Your backup is then as simple as copying files over to another networked
> box (or as complex as the backup scripts you want to write), and is
> limited only by the size of the remote disk(s).
> 
> Depends a lot on the amount of data you need to back up, but burning files
> to DVD seems like such a lot of effort when you can buy disks so cheaply
> these days.
> 
> I never bothered with tape devices, since they used to be expensive, and
> then disk became so cheap.
> -- 
> Mike Holden
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