On Thu 20 January 2011 17:16:57 Christ Schlacta wrote: > you might look into amanda for your backups, it's quite nice. also, ask > yourself "Can I re-rip(download?) this if I lose it?", before you bother > wasting money on drive space to back it up. that's enough OT for now > though~~
Not familiar with Amanda, and rsync is quite challenging, but it allows highly efficient differential backups over the network (SSH, compressed transfer). Also, I can mount a BTRFS snapshot from any date and recover the files as they were on that date. "Can I re-rip(download?) this if I lose it?" Problem is remembering the names of all these fine movies, and getting quality copies. This is 30 years of my favorite movies and TV shows (ever heard of Danger Man?), and I'm still building. Do you know that a WD Green 2TB drive is now $80? (with rebate) I went ahead and bought three (with 64MB cache!), and have slots for two more in my backup server. Not even filling one yet; will be using one for HD security cameras. Disk is the only practical method of backing up anymore. I'm backing up each machine once a week (cron), and can do a full restore over the GB network through SSH. Running BTRFS RAID arrays, to which disks can be added and balanced on-the-fly. The backup server is way at the back of my (detached) garage, down low in case of fire. About $600 all-in, and I have more peace of mind than in a long time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
