On Monday 16 February 2009 12:10 pm, Dante Lanznaster wrote: > 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.
Then I'd have to keep at least one other offsite backup; maybe I need to, anyway. And because we keep multiple backups I backup to a tarball; I didn't make that clear previously. Until I actually fill up the drive with tarballs I'll have room for more than one backup in case I do something stupid. Unmounting a drive is a lot safer imho, but maybe I'm wrong. It's part of a script and only takes a small part of a second. > Personally I'd set up a software RAID setup, which is really easy and > safe. I would too ... and then use external backup via usb. In fact that was my first choice, but until I figured out how to make software RAID work (see my other posts) it didn't appear to be an option. I've got it set up now. Thanks! 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";
