Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-12 Thread jarry
I need to be able to back up around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed doesn't matter. Any ideas? Does gentoo support packet/incremental writing on dvd-ram? From hardware point of view, it could be quite secure solution for backup (10 rewrite cycles, compared to ~1000 for

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-12 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Lord, on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 18:25:32, you wrote: (it's an Iomega ditto QIC-80 parallel port floppy-protocol tape drive). I also bought a very low quality DVD+RW drive (MagicSpin non-MMC, non-Ricoh - Beh. A faster solution with similar security to either one would be a tar

[gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Lord Imbrius the Despondent
Hello, all. I have a small webserver/mail server running Gentoo. I need to find a backup solution that will work for this type of setup. Unfortunately, there is no working driver for a parallel floppy-protocol (backpack) tape drive for Linux 2.6. I've tried LOTS of things to get that drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all.I have a small webserver/mail server running Gentoo.I need tofind a backup solution that will work for this type of setup.Unfortunately,there is no working driver for a parallel floppy-protocol (backpack) tape drive for

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: inserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back up around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed doesn't matter. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Roy Wright
Richard Fish wrote: On 1/11/06, Lord Imbrius the Despondent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: inserted when there clearly is. Other times it gets 3 quarters of the way through the write and throws an I/O error. I need to be able to back up around 32-40MB nightly and around 1.2GB weekly. Speed

Re: [gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Mark Shields
Here's what I did. I mounted a partition of my home PC's 80 gig partition using samba and gave the server write access. Right now I just make a stage4 backup manually then copy it over to that hard drive, but I'm going to modify the script where I can run it in a cron job weekly. I also burn a