If you wanna keep it easy, just mount the drive and rsync your data to it. No need to have special mount/unmount stuff, leave it on fstab to automount and set up a cron job to back up stuff with rsync.
Personally I'd set up a software RAID setup, which is really easy and safe. On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote: > In my recent thread, ubuntu questions, I discussed the problems with > software RAID on ubuntu. > > I'm still interested in using ubuntu for my office desktop system. I > back up important data every night to a hard drive connected via usb. > It's got it's own separate power supply; I mount it, back up to it, and > unmount it. So maybe I don't even need software RAID. In which case > I've got two 500GB drives to use. (They're brand new drives, Samsung > HD502IJ) > > How about creating a logical volume with LVM, and using the entire TB? > Safe? > > How about using the second drive as just a second storage drive? > > How about using it as in-the-system backup, but only mounting it when > I'm actually doing the backup and then unmounting it? > > Safe vs unsafe compared to what I do now (software RAID, nightly > backups)? 500GB is really enough space for me; on my current system, > used since Mandriva LE 2005 came out, I've only used 57G of space. > > Jeff > -- > Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services > P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: > "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
