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Virtual Tape Library is the way to go, zone 3 fiber channels, 2 for SAN redundancy and 1 for VTL. But yes for compliance Iron Mountain can promise a 911 proof tape storage but of course you dont need a terrorist for a bad tape media. On 5/3/07, Ariz Jacinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: magnetic t

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On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:53:50PM +0800, Tiger Quimpo wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 11:39 +0800, ian sison (mailing list) wrote: > > It's a good thing the cost of hard disks have gone down > > nowadays, and it's so easy to justify a raid 1 array of > > 750GB with several external USB hard disks

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Tiger Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hitachi is shipping their 1GB disks now, $450 ang price daw. I believe that this is 1TB? $450 is too much to pay for a 1GB disk. P~Manalastas _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.l

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On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 17:18 +0800, Rafael Sevilla wrote: > On Thu, 03 May 2007 16:53:50 +0800 > Tiger Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hitachi is shipping their 1GB disks now, $450 ang price > > daw. > > Is it still 1997? ;) Surely you mean 1TB disks...? right, that's what I meant. hahahah

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Oh gee. what can I do with a 1 GIGABYTE hard drive, nowadays? ... And all for $450 =8D hehe ;) Seriously though, a 5 disk 1 TB RAID 5 array would make for a way cool MLDonkey/MythTV media server! - ian On 5/3/07, Tiger Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 11:39 +0800,

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On Thu, 03 May 2007 16:53:50 +0800 Tiger Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hitachi is shipping their 1GB disks now, $450 ang price > daw. Is it still 1997? ;) Surely you mean 1TB disks...? -- 夏草や兵どもが夢が跡。。。 http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature __

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On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 11:39 +0800, ian sison (mailing list) wrote: > It's a good thing the cost of hard disks have gone down > nowadays, and it's so easy to justify a raid 1 array of > 750GB with several external USB hard disks for backup purposes. Hitachi is shipping their 1GB disks now, $450 a

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magnetic tape backups are still needed for compliance purposes although i wouldn't recommend depending your job _solely_ on it. reminds me of the days that we almost have to endure more than a week of downtime for the tape restoration to finish (while crossing our fingers against the possibility

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rdiff-backup rsnapshot dirvish What did they say about skinning a cat? :) All different means to a similar end. Saving one's butt as Eric put it so aptly. Rsnapshot has saved mine several times over as well. What's the common theme amongst this is that the era of tape based backups are over.

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I use dirvish for disk-based backups, it's also based on rsync. Been using it for a year now (give or take a few days), it has saved my hide a lot of times during that time. Restoring a single file is as easy as a few taps on the "enter" key (in mc). There are even scripts for automating daily

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--- Gerald Timothy Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 05:40 +0800, jan gestre wrote: > > > i found a rsync backup script that will perform a > 7 day incremental > > backup of the /home directory but the example is > based on a remote > > server,. my scenario is that the /h

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On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 05:40 +0800, jan gestre wrote: > i found a rsync backup script that will perform a 7 day incremental > backup of the /home directory but the example is based on a remote > server,. my scenario is that the /home directory will be backed up > using an external hard drive attach

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Jan, snapshot_root means the path where you will save your snapshot/backup. not necessary this path exist, it will just automatically create. In your case, you take a backup of your home directory and the destination will be the external drive which is mounted in /backup, so your config will look

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On 4/24/07, Ian Dexter R. Marquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Jan: The proof of the pudding is in the eating. ;) You'd have to test the script first, preferably in a nondestructive way. What I usually do is set up some mock directories, add some files and test the backup script. Looking at

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On 4/25/07, Warren Beldad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: jan, forget about making that script :-) there are lots out there. try rsnapshot. http://www.rsnapshot.org/ it is written in perl script and still based in rsync. by the end of the week, your /backup folder will contain, daily.0 daily.1 daily

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On 4/25/07, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/24/07, Edel SM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have you tried rdiff-backup ? > that's what i am using. i have my cron job running every 4am everyday. i've read about it, my problem is to make an increment

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jan, forget about making that script :-) there are lots out there. try rsnapshot. http://www.rsnapshot.org/ it is written in perl script and still based in rsync. by the end of the week, your /backup folder will contain, daily.0 daily.1 daily.2 daily.3 daily.4 daily.5 daily.6 you can also save i

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On 4/24/07, Edel SM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: have you tried rdiff-backup ? that's what i am using. i have my cron job running every 4am everyday. i've read about it, my problem is to make an incremental backup script that works :D On 4/24/07, jan gestre

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have you tried rdiff-backup ? that's what i am using. i have my cron job running every 4am everyday. On 4/24/07, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/24/07, Ian Dexter R. Marquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Jan: > > The proof of the pudding is in

Re: [plug] rsync backup script

On 4/24/07, Ian Dexter R. Marquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Jan: The proof of the pudding is in the eating. ;) You'd have to test the script first, preferably in a nondestructive way. What I usually do is set up some mock directories, add some files and test the backup script. Looking at

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Hi, Jan: The proof of the pudding is in the eating. ;) You'd have to test the script first, preferably in a nondestructive way. What I usually do is set up some mock directories, add some files and test the backup script. Looking at your script, since you're doing the backup locally, there's no

[plug] rsync backup script

hi guys, i found a rsync backup script that will perform a 7 day incremental backup of the /home directory but the example is based on a remote server,. my scenario is that the /home directory will be backed up using an external hard drive attached to the local machine. i already formatted this d