> > External drives are ok for me as long as it has some Raid on it (at least > > Raid 5). Single drive backup is like an optical backup with a lot of > > rewrites ;-)
(I should really be replying to the OP, but ..) Of course, the -sensible- method of doing it is to cycle through backup media, rather than having an "active" and "backup" disk set. All you need is one bad backup and everything is toast - or, in my case (which didn't hurt me as I -have- lots of backup disks that I swap in once a week into my enclosure, as well as hourly/daily/weekly incremental tarballs going off-site) lightning damaged the fileserver and the currently active full backup going to the external disk. Both were very charcoalled :) (Yet another problem solved thirty years ago that people keep reinventing..) Adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
