Good ideas, but... On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 at 09:16 -0700, Derek Davis wrote: > Why does it have to be CD-RW?
It could be CDR, but then you end up with coasters. I like the reuse idea of CD-RW. Why CD? Because that's the most common decent-sized cheap removeable media thing going on. DVD would be fine too, if I had a DVD writer. > I've set up an rsync backup that automatically makes daily snapshots > to a machine I have in the basement and works very well for me. No other machine (well, my laptop but disk space on it is a premium). I do have a raid in this machine, but I'd still like a backup. > If you want something more portable, you could get a cheap, external > hard drive and do the same thing. No cash. We're talking mp3-player deprived here. > If you want something off site, Josh Coates' new service at mozy.com > offers 2 GB of automatic backup for the cost of a bit of targetted > advertising, and you have to use a Windows box. No Windows. > Or maybe a group of pluggers could offer each other small bits of hard > drive space with quotas, and we could get some distributed backups > going on. I've seen this discussion before, and while it is a fascinating technical problem it is not an easy one. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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