Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: I'm struggling to come up with a plan for making backups that is both effective and economical. I have 4 Gentoo systems: 1. strong local desktop 2. weak local desktop 3. laptop 4. hosted remote server I'd like to backup the important system and data files from each of these

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Grant
I'm struggling to come up with a plan for making backups that is both effective and economical. I have 4 Gentoo systems: 1. strong local desktop 2. weak local desktop 3. laptop 4. hosted remote server I'd like to backup the important system and data files from each of these systems,

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
what about a nice little tapelib - used from ebay? DLT and LTO drivers are extremly robust. The tape cardridges can endure a lot of punishment and are made to lay around for years, waiting for the emergency. You even can write to it over a network/the internet (mbuffer+tar).

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: | what about a nice little tapelib - used from ebay? DLT and LTO drivers are | extremly robust. The tape cardridges can endure a lot of punishment and are | made to lay around for years, waiting for the emergency. You even

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: | what about a nice little tapelib - used from ebay? DLT and LTO drivers are | extremly robust. The tape cardridges can endure a lot of punishment and are | made to lay around for years, waiting for the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 9. August 2008 17:41:39 schrieb Grant: I could set up NAS storage at a friend's place. We both have Suddenlink cable connections so the throughput should be alright. I don't like running a non-Gentoo system though, even if it is just NAS. Plus he uses a Netgear router which

[gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-08 Thread Grant
I'm struggling to come up with a plan for making backups that is both effective and economical. I have 4 Gentoo systems: 1. strong local desktop 2. weak local desktop 3. laptop 4. hosted remote server I'd like to backup the important system and data files from each of these systems, plus my