Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution
Hi Lord, on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 18:25:32, you wrote: > (it's an Iomega ditto QIC-80 parallel port floppy-protocol tape drive). I > also bought a very low quality DVD+RW drive (MagicSpin non-MMC, non-Ricoh - Beh. A faster solution with similar security to either one would be a tar -cf/dev/null / If you're concerned mainly about FS errors, accidental deletes and such, I'd also suggest a second harddrive. It's relatively cheap, very fast, random-access and pretty secure. If on top of that you want protection against things like overvoltage, lightning etc. that might fry your whole system, you need some removable media like MO or tape. I used a DAT streamer for quite a while. DAT doesn't have the best tapes either, they wear out pretty quickly, but both tapes and drives are cheap nowadays and more than adequate for your amount of data. MO has a good reputation too but I don't have any experience with it. It seems a bit out of fashion today so you may be able to get a good deal on a drive. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 pgpahrZSreHbK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution
> I need to be able to back up around 32-40MB nightly and around > 1.2GB weekly. Speed doesn't matter. Any ideas? Does gentoo support packet/incremental writing on dvd-ram? >From hardware point of view, it could be quite secure solution for backup (10 rewrite cycles, compared to ~1000 for dvd-+rw), maybe even more secure than old hard-drive and still quite cheap (dvd-ram drive ~50E + a couple of disks)... Jarry -- Telefonieren Sie schon oder sparen Sie noch? NEU: GMX Phone_Flat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/telefonie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution
Here's what I did. I mounted a partition of my home PC's 80 gig partition using samba and gave the server write access. Right now I just make a stage4 backup manually then copy it over to that hard drive, but I'm going to modify the script where I can run it in a cron job weekly. I also burn a copy of the backup to DVD. On 1/12/06, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > > >On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>inserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way > >>through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back up > >>around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed doesn't matter. Any > >>ideas? Thanks! > >> > >> > > > >My (strong!) preference today is hard drives...if you have an > >old-but-working IDE drive laying about, buy a USB case and backup to > >that. > > > >-Richard > > > > > > > I use rsnapshot to both a local drive and a remote system... > > HTH, > Roy > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution
Richard Fish wrote: On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: inserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back up around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed doesn't matter. Any ideas? Thanks! My (strong!) preference today is hard drives...if you have an old-but-working IDE drive laying about, buy a USB case and backup to that. -Richard I use rsnapshot to both a local drive and a remote system... HTH, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution
On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > inserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way > through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back up > around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed doesn't matter. Any > ideas? Thanks! My (strong!) preference today is hard drives...if you have an old-but-working IDE drive laying about, buy a USB case and backup to that. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution
On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, all. I have a small webserver/mail server running Gentoo. I need tofind a backup solution that will work for this type of setup. Unfortunately,there is no working driver for a parallel floppy-protocol (backpack) tape drive for Linux 2.6. I've tried LOTS of things to get that drive working(it's an Iomega ditto QIC-80 parallel port floppy-protocol tape drive). Ialso bought a very low quality DVD+RW drive (MagicSpin non-MMC, non-Ricoh - no English drivers or instructions, even for windoze). It fails to doanything in Linux. Most of the time it tells me that there is no mediainserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back uparound 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed doesn't matter. Anyideas? Thanks!-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing lista second harddrive or second machine, and rsync,tar,bzip2,date?Cynyr.-- if you are tired of virii look at http://fedora.redhat.com/ and for those of you still using AOL's messangertry out http://gaim.sf.net/... and for photoshop see http://www.gimp.org use http://www.gimp.org/
[gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution
Hello, all. I have a small webserver/mail server running Gentoo. I need to find a backup solution that will work for this type of setup. Unfortunately, there is no working driver for a parallel floppy-protocol (backpack) tape drive for Linux 2.6. I've tried LOTS of things to get that drive working (it's an Iomega ditto QIC-80 parallel port floppy-protocol tape drive). I also bought a very low quality DVD+RW drive (MagicSpin non-MMC, non-Ricoh - no English drivers or instructions, even for windoze). It fails to do anything in Linux. Most of the time it tells me that there is no media inserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back up around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed doesn't matter. Any ideas? Thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
