Hi!

On Thu Mar 20, 2003 at 10:59:40AM -0500, the boisterous
Bob Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote to me:
> 1) what is better for backup, tape, or CD? (I already have a CD burner)

IMHO tape, but it depends on cost, ...

> 2) if tape, what is a good/inexpensive product to use?

If have an inexpensive Seagate STD224000N aka Archive Python. Runs very
good.

> I did some googling and found Linux-Backup.net (and others). It appears 
> the state of backup for Linux is to use tar or afio and backup entire 
> images. I haven't found examples of backing up multi-GB archives that 
> span multiple tapes/CDRs.
>
> I'm imagining a baseline backup with periodic (maybe weekly, maybe more 
> often) incrementals. I can easily copy my relevant files (3GB+) to a 
> bunch of CDs, but then how do I keep track of newer backup copies that 
> should replace older versions? I am looking for software smart enough to 
> do this.

Try amanda, very good network backup solution (http://www.amanda.org/).
Of course, debian has packaged it.

so long
Thomas

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