On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 04:21:41PM -0400, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > Bacula has always seemed to be one of the good options out there, and > running it on FreeNAS is certainly well supported. > > There's nothing obviously wrong with your approach to rsync to a > remote place or copy to external HDD for rotation. > > Madison Kelly did a talk on something akin back in 2004; Madison was > the first person I heard that particularly "championed" using > USB-connected HDDs as a backup medium at the time that tape drives > were only just starting to get supplanted as a backup medium. > > Since then, that direction has become somewhere in between "viable" > and "preferable." And it now looks like tape drives are pretty rarely > used anymore, as rarity has made it difficult for vendors to boost > capacity as quickly as is the case for disk drives. *Everyone* wants > bigger HDDs. (Well, we're starting to glimpse a place where solid > state drives are getting sufficiently large and cheap that a lot of > computer systems now prefer SSD, and we may see HDDs go somewhat down > the road that tape drives have...) > > Rotating the HDDs so that they do get spun up fairly regularly is a good idea.
My experience some years ago with 3 USB harddrives that were rotated weekly was that the disks didn't last long. 3.5" HDs do not like being moved a lot and frequently died. Moving to tape was way way more reliable but certainly had a higher cost in terms of getting a tape drive and for recovery you might need another tape drive while a USB drive works with anything. If your backup is pretty small though, USB attached SSD seems like it could be a very reliable solution. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
