On Saturday 24 January 2004 09:57 am, Aaron Walker wrote: > Came home at 3am this morning to find my main desktop machine locked up > solid... Rebooted and all of a sudden heard the dreaded clicking of the > hard drive (a 6month old WDC 80GB). I was wanting to reinstall Gentoo > on my main desktop anyways, but this wasn't quite what I had in mind... > > Anyways, I threw a spare hard drive in (identical to the one that died), > and am in the process of reinstalling Gentoo (on the 3rd different > machine this week ) > > Once I get everything back up and running, I want to start making it a > habit to back things up on a regular basis. I was wondering what others > on this list did for their backups. > > I was considering the following: > - a seperate machine to handle all backup's of the various machines on > my home LAN
That is a good choice but backing up on a second harddrive will be faster. > - buy another 80G and a RAID card and run it in RAID 1 a RAID 1 array will protect against hardware failures but not filesystem errors. What I have right now is a script running daily and backups everything (using cpio piped though gzip) except temp directories and media files. I also added some estimates on free space so that the earliest backup is removed if it is estimated that the remaining space is not enough. This way I maximize the number of previous daily backups. I hope this helps. -- Alkis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
