On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:34:29PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:08:14PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > I agree that 120GB (as opposed to 20GB, as I thought before) suggest a > > tape solution. Still, the large up-front cost of the tape drive, coupled > > with the cost of each tape, make a hard disk solution seem appealing. > > I like a combination of mirroring and other backup. If you make a daily > mirror to a spare server in a period of low activity, then you have > 24 hours to do the backup.
In addition, if you do use a mirror server, you might as well use something like rsnapshot and get a poor man's snapshots for around 1.5 times the space, depending on your usage patterns. You might also consider backing up not the latest version in rsnapshot but all of them. This way if you decide to archive e.g. one tape per month, and have enough snapshots, you'll also get some of the intermediate versions. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
