On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Tod Hansmann <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking at replacing work's current tape backup system.
Here's what I do. It works pretty well. All software is free and it's really simple. I have to backup svn server, linux database servers, windows domain, etc. I have a weekly 2 TB external drive attached to my windows domain. (For quarterly, yearly backups I have a 3 TB drive.) Cron jobs either on Windows or Linux run capturing the data and compressing it onto the external drive. (On the Windows domain Server, I run 7zip on a scheduler.) Currently, I backup 4TB of data each week. Restoring data that people accidentally delete, etc has been a snap. Yeah, get rid of the tapes. Too slow to backup, too slow to restore and too easy to break and too unreliable. Those are so 20th century. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
