On Sunday 30 June 2002 12:41, Ron Stanonik wrote: >On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 30 June 2002 05:26, Mike Delaney wrote: >> Both WD(spit) and Maxtor are now selling ATA-133 320 giggers at >> less than 500 bucks on the street. We just made up a software >> raid server using Promise 20269 cards and 4 of the maxtor 160's, >> been up about 3 months now, runs rsync to backup the rest of the >> places data in a 3 tier directory lashup so we have the father >> and son both covered. They're in removeable trays and we've >> tested them > >I realize it is a not amanda, but could you explain "3 tier > directory lashup".
We do a nightly to one directory tree on the raid, never wiped so its current, a weekly wipe and recopy to another, and a monthly wipe and recopy to yet another directory tree. rsync is pretty versatile in that regard. >I'm using amanda for backups, but new machines have filesystems >that exceed my tape capacity (admittedly DDS3). Specifying > directories that fit on tape seems like its only buying me some > time ... and maybe not much. > >I use rsync to backup new machines until I have a directory > structure that fits on tape, to move systems from one machine to > another, and as an additional backup before upgrade (it's so > comforting to see a copy of the whole system). rsync is fast > (especially differentials), but I miss the redundancy of tapes. > >Thanks, > >Ron Stanonik >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.03% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
