On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 01:41:54AM -0700, MattyJ wrote:
Online backup is another alternative (except for your small amount of
paper, of course.) A consultant buddy of mine swears by this place:
http://www.mozy.com
No clue if they have a Linux client, though.
If their mozy backup software is anywhere as bad as their Retrospect
Linux client, I would run, quickly, and as far away as possible.
EMC has done a lot of acquisitions, so it's hard to tell if it is
based on any of the same code. If it is, you're probably better off
just printing out your data and burning it. You can recover the
information from the ashes.
Some of my experiences:
- If two files have the same size and time, they are obviously the
same. This was real fun with a large directory of 'MD5SUMS' files
that was generated en-mass. Many groups were generated within the
same second, as if they covered the same number of files, bam,
must be the same. Fortunately, at least, you can also configure
it so that the files have to have the same path to be considered
the same.
- Likewise, files of the same size and time, even on different
clients, well those must also be the same.
- Long pathnames caused buffer-overruns in the client. I basically
gave up when their solution was to tell me to use shorter
pathnames.
There seem to be a large number of backup solutions where the authors
obviously don't actually try restoring the backups.
Also, unless you have a really fast internet connection, especially
the uplink. You've going to realistically only be able to backup
small amounts of "important" data.
David
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