jdd wrote: > Eberhard Roloff wrote: > >> In fact that means that your usb drive will "only" need to accomodate >> 200GB+ "a little more". Ex 300GB will most likely do for a VERY long >> time. > > I think you did miss the point. > > I can dl a cd in 10 minutes and a dvd in four hours. I have a collection > of 1000+ films. I have each month 4cd and 1 dvd of linux alpha distro > (and often more) > > all this is filling my drive. > > I have also (right now) 4 hours of dv video (50Gb) and the 3 dvd O made > from it (30Bg with the associated files I need to keep for editing purpose) > > all this is very important right now but will have nearly no interest in > some days (only the dvd resulting will have meaning) > > it's impossible to backup all this, I already have problems keeping them > one month :-) > > much data have an importance for a very small time. > > there is no other solution than selecting the part to backup manually... > > I know of database systems with several gigabytes of data, with small > changes (think at wikipedia) > > I only want to say that no backup strategy is univesal, anybody must > find one that suits his needs. yours or an other :-) > > jdd
Have you thought of doing incremental backups? These are backups where only the changed files are backedup. In many of the Enterprise setups, they do a full backup once a week. Then on a daily basis they do incremental backups. This reduce the amount of data loss to a day. You might want to consider doing full backups once a month and weekly incremental. -- Joseph Loo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
