On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > 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.
by the way - this may be combined with the use of LVM's snapshots - in case you don't have a long enough backup window. this, ofcourse, requires first migrating all the volumes to LVM. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= 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]
