Hi Why not do something slightly different.
1 x external USB2/Firewall HDD (ata-133) casing ~ $140 1 x 300GB HD ~ $500 You can do a complete backup and because it is an external unit, remove it from the machine and store off site. Get 2 or 3. You have complete maybe even bootable backups of your machine. Alex On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:29:05AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 27 Jan, David Kempe wrote: > > > have you considered rdiff-backup? > > http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu > > > > you can rdiff-backup to a firewire drive or 2 for a good combination of > > maximum storage and massive incrementals (not incrementals reverse diffs > > really) > > That adds complexity to the restore process and doesn't solve the > problem of losing your backup after cycling through the incrementals > once. > > mlh suggested rsync. So that would be using on average 300MB per > incremental stored. I guess if I devoted 30GB to it that would give me > 100 days, which would be heaps. > > Terry still likes tapes, and presumably keeps about 30 different > incrementals, otherwise that solution doesn't address the issue. (And I > may as well use CDRWs rather than tapes if I were to do that.) > > I don't like the idea of having my data smeared across the internet, > and unrecoverable unless I have a working computer and internet. > Neither of which may be the case if something bad has gone wrong. > > So I'm quite happy with my revised solution. It addresses the issue, > it uses commodity hardware and media, and the manual side of the process > is clear and unlikely to be stuffed up by tired humans. :-) > > luke > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
