On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Ian C. Sison wrote: > On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Jun Tanamal wrote: > > > > > Ian C. Sison wrote: > > > > > How big is the data you need to backup? If it's < 160GB, forget tape, and > > > go with hardware RAID1 on ide drives. Backup is instantaneous, just pull > > > out a drive, and push in a new one, the system will auto resync. Recovery > > > is also easy as pie, and it's obvious! > > > > > > The data that I will be backing up daily and weekly would be much less > > than 160GB. RAID1 is a good suggestion and adding a tape back-up I suppose. > > Tape backup is unnecassary if you have RAID1 and you regularly switch your > mirror disk.
Technically, what you are doing is Disaster Recovery strategy rather than real Backups. Though for all intent and purposes, it's still a backup on your OS and files nevertheless. Doing a real backup stratey with full and incremental backups, would be expensive if you use harddisks rather than tapes, now. In the future, that may change as the price of harddisks keep falling. regards, --- Andre M. Varon, SCSA http://andre.lasaltech.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
