i append my venti arenas to usb memory sticks - only two so far. i don't store music or videos on plan9 so compressed de-duplicated data doesn't take up much space.
the only time i had problems was my own fault, over cooling a disk through my own paranoia. > On 26 Oct 2016, at 18:43, Steven Stallion <[email protected]> wrote: > > It was exactly this thought that led me to moving my venti store to > running out of plan9port. At home, I have a Linux server that provides > other services in addition to venti with an obnoxious amount of > storage. I also have a CrashPlan client running on this machine. The > result is an always-on backup that's completely hands free. > > I've been a customer for about 10 years and have had to recover from > at least one disaster in that time. I've yet to have any problems with > this setup. I do not miss rotating tapes nor holding my breath any > time I needed to read an optical/spinning disk backup. > > HTH, > > Steve > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:25 PM, James A. Robinson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I see several threads about how people are cloning their Venti >> servers to remote Venti servers as a means of creating a backup. >> >> Reading over the man pages, I assume it's also possible to do >> something like use rdarena to dump an arena out, encrypt it, and >> put the encrypted arena into a remote service like Amazon S3. >> >> On my Mac OS X machine I use something called Arq that can >> store the data in Amazon Glacier, which is an ideal fit for true >> "disaster scenario" backups (vs. day-to-day backups you might >> need to access on some regular frequency). >> >> However, I see some emails warning about using rdarena/wrarena >> versus simply copying a fossil, so I'm wondering if there are issues >> I'm not picking up from my reading of the man pages. I can also >> see there are various threads complaining about the stability of >> venti+fossil, but then there are others saying it's stable and works >> great. >> >> >> Jim >>
