On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:14 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
dear all,
what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month?
[...]
Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of
8-10 months of storage. If you really care for the data, buy two, and
make a
On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:14 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
dear all,
what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month?
[...]
Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of
8-10 months of storage.
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Linux Lingam wrote:
what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month?
dvd discs have come down in price, but some of the data-files are
individually larger than 10gb (home video) and cutting and storing
sliced versions
--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
after a few days, reconnected the drive today.
it made some grunting noises that alarmed me,
and sure enough, folders and files are missing, or
icons changed.
unmounting it safely does not work anymore. 'df'
shows me the device
is unmounted
On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of
8-10 months of storage. If you really care for the data, buy two, and
make a software RAID array out of them.
Agreed. In fact I would suggest that you make the 500GB RAID 1
On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:14 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
dear all,
what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month?
[...]
Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of
8-10 months of storage.
Take a harddrive of double or more capacity than your
total data and do a weekly rsync of all your data.
Simple :-)
If you tell us the layout for your data (or data
partition) we can write a script for you to automate
the backup.
thanks vivek.
i wonder if hardisks, especially when used
thanks tanveer for your response.
Gora
Isnt something like Amazon S3 more reliable, if the data is critical.
Its auotmatic using shell scripts and cron jobs.
Cost for such data would come to around 15$/month if your total
storage online is around 60GB
Thats around 600rs/month or around
--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thanks vivek.
i wonder if hardisks, especially when used for such
heavy read-writes,
can last 10 years. i've seen my data cds have
actually lasted 10
years, but can't recall a single hard-disk that has.
As backups which is not accessed so
dear naresh narang,
Check this out -
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/193
Regards,
--Naresh
thanks for the link. like the way it gets down and dirty with bad
blocks and shows you how to tackle with them. as my hard disk was
making clicking and grunting mechanical sounds, i just
Hi! All,
In case you still don't know about it, freed.in is about to happen.
Excitement is building up, talks are being registered and to top it off,
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Check http://freed.in on a regular basis. Its changing all the time now.
Cheers...Kishore
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The only really
--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Splurge on another Rs. 1.5K
for a good USB/IDE interface, and you have instant
access to the
stored data.
so you're saying i could use a usb2 hub, plug in
500GB hardisks
slapped into usb-casings connected to this hub, and
run a raid?
RAID
Vikram Ranade wrote:
750 GB drives cost 11k each at Nehru Place.
we've just bought a bunch of them for storage.
Personally I recommend a HDD based software raid 5 array.
I have 2 such arrays at home totalling 2.5TB and they have been
working really well for the past 2 years.
We did
750 GB drives cost 11k each at Nehru Place.
we've just bought a bunch of them for storage.
Personally I recommend a HDD based software raid 5 array.
I have 2 such arrays at home totalling 2.5TB and they have been
working really well for the past 2 years.
We did something similar at work with
good old slashy! lots of different viewpoints.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/30/184256
:-)
niyam
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On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 18:58 +0530, Kishore Bhargava wrote:
Vikram Ranade wrote:
750 GB drives cost 11k each at Nehru Place.
we've just bought a bunch of them for storage.
Personally I recommend a HDD based software raid 5 array.
I have 2 such arrays at home totalling 2.5TB and they
On 8/1/07, Vikram Ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
750 GB drives cost 11k each at Nehru Place.
we've just bought a bunch of them for storage.
bunch of 750GB HDD for home storage.
gulp!
i agree with kishore, you gotta give a talk at freed.in Raiding the
kitchen: what's cooking in terabytes at
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 18:05 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 02:14 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote:
dear all,
what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month?
[...]
Decent 500GB IDE drives are going
--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/1/07, Vikram Ranade
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
750 GB drives cost 11k each at Nehru Place.
we've just bought a bunch of them for storage.
bunch of 750GB HDD for home storage.
gulp!
i agree with kishore, you gotta give a talk at
freed.in
Quoting Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Erm, doesn't everyone? I have 1TB at home in a RAID-1 configuration.
i dont - the only data i cant afford to lose are my passwords which are backed
up on deadtrees and locked in a safe. I dont even back up mail any more. List
mail is archived anyway,
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