On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please excuse the thread breaking. I have suddenly been being rejected by the > list server and am sending for the third time. I hope that the list server > is now happy with my SMTP settings. > > On Tuesday 15 June 2010 01:25:56 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> There are many many ways to make take backups beyond having a disk big >> enough to hold the data. > > Would you feel inclined to elaborate? I'm trying to solve this problem for my > granddaughter's large HDD, and am not keen to have to buy a 300GB external > drive. Tar would still require a fairly large medium. :-(
It all depends. Questions to ask How much total data is there to backup How much data changes on each change how many backups do I want to keep. How easy do I want to make my restores I use rdiff-backup remote diff backup package to a backup server, I usually keep about 30 backups, figure if I haven't noticed in a month then I probably don't really need it :) I have plenty of space on my backup server (you could use a NAS box - one of those ones that takes 2 disks so that you can raid1). I backup the system and the valuable data and for the really valuable data I send to 2 remote sites - its all automated so I don't have to worry about it (sends me emails when it has problems). took me a while to write/setup the system. I realise i will need a debian DVD to recover a machine, install base and then just restore the system backup set and go from there. One thing to remember also RAID is not a backup solution. > > Lisi > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006151132.15778.lisi.re...@gmail.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinmibpej51z5raiq-ipofihbym6tpar1cwjo...@mail.gmail.com