On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 17:28, Robert Barry wrote:
> I'm a CPA in my real life and I decided to go with
> removable hard drives for our office network.  
> 
> I just setup a mandrake server and use samba to backup
> up the NT fileserver right on to the removable hard
> drive.  I have a set of shell scripts that mount the
> NT fileserver directories and cron runs it everynight
> at 11pm. It does about 3GBs of data.  Then I shutdown
> and swap hard drive so I have a drive rotated offsite
> to my house.  I usually swap hard drives every few
> days.

Robert... The last line about backing up to a second location physically
is the best.... Fire that destroy's your primary gets the tapes in the
other room as well.  

James

> 
> I have the mandrake server running headless and use
> SSH to access it from home or from my windows 2k
> desktop at work.
> 
> For a small network like mine it is so easy to setup
> and run.
> 
> Robert Barry
> 
> 
> 
> 
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