<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<br>
<br>
Matthew Schumacher wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid42827B7C.1020800@schu.net" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">pmb wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">This is totally off topic, but it probably applies to a lot of people
here who have too much data for tape backups.
I support a linux file server for a client that is fed up with using
tape backups and insists on setting up a back up to a hard drive. The
whole package will need to be idiot proof and easy to use.
I imagine many people on this list are already doing this.
Questions I have...
What software are you using? It seems like a simple tar or cp in a cron
job would do the trick.
What hardware are you using to provide hot swapable drives at a
reasonable cost? USB, SCSI?
How are you moving the drives offsite? It seems like just chucking a
bare drive in your car everyday will drastically reduce its life span.
Anybody have any experience with these
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.high-rely.com/index.cfm?action=products&group=3">http://www.high-rely.com/index.cfm?action=products&group=3</a> ?
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
Ok, there is a really good way to do this, go look at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/">http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/</a>
Basically you can have a rotation that only consumes the size of the
data plus change over the rotation period.
</pre>
</blockquote>
that's what I use: rsync. Works well and is easy.<br>
</body>
</html>