Have you considered using compression of some sort and DVD/RW discs? I'm unsure of how much data is actually being backed up so this may have too little capacity for your needs.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of larry price Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:52 AM To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group Subject: [Eug-lug] Backups for the budget conscious As the new year approaches, some of us take the time to cast a critical eye over our infrastructure. and contemplate upgrades. to this end I've been looking at various backup solutions, and thought I'd ask for some informed opinions on the relative merits of different solutions. currently my backup strategy (for my stuff) consists of Raid 1 on one machine and selective directory mirroring using rsync from the other machines, plus a monthly session of cd burning for critical data. It's starting to look inadequate and in the case of failure I do have recovery work that needs to be done before I'm fully operational, above and beyond recovering the data. What I'm considering: 1. DAT tape drive ~$600 to get started 40GB per tape, can use AMANDA enough capacity, enough speed, fairly robust, light power requirements 2. Disk mirroring with external/removable drives cost varies but figure ~$600 to get enough space and enough units to allow for backups and offsite storage, does allow the possibility of having a bootable backup disk that can be ported to another machine. 3. ??? (I'm open to suggestions) -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
