On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:44:04AM +1100, DaZZa wrote: > > The best approach to backing up is usually to say no. Surprisingly > > little data on many machines is not recoverable or reproducable or that > > inportant in the first place. > > With a statement like that, it's pretty obvious you haven't worked in the > financial, insurance or government industries.
They're the only places I've worked :-( Oh, there was an airline too. You're taking my "no" too literally. Of course, I do NOT mean that you should refuse to backup data, that's ludicrous. I meant that the onus should be on the business to specify what should be backed up. Part of an SLA and all that stuff which makes ITIL enthusiasts breath heavy. > > Next best approach is to only do it incrementally, forever. I.e. use > > rsync to remote copy. The only thing this doesn't give you is to go > > back to a point in time easily. > > Believe it or not, despite this being a Unix users list, a good percentage > of the commercial world does NOT run *nix. IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager does this, and it works on any OS you care to mention. It doesn't use the rsync protocol AFAIK, but presumably something similar. Anyway, this is the SLUG list, and my mail should be read with that in mind. I'm not going to go into excruciating detail. My original mail could be summed as saying backup is not free, make sure you get your money's worth. Pretty uncontroversial really. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
