On 27 Jan, David Kempe wrote: > have you considered rdiff-backup? > http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu > > you can rdiff-backup to a firewire drive or 2 for a good combination of > maximum storage and massive incrementals (not incrementals reverse diffs > really)
That adds complexity to the restore process and doesn't solve the problem of losing your backup after cycling through the incrementals once. mlh suggested rsync. So that would be using on average 300MB per incremental stored. I guess if I devoted 30GB to it that would give me 100 days, which would be heaps. Terry still likes tapes, and presumably keeps about 30 different incrementals, otherwise that solution doesn't address the issue. (And I may as well use CDRWs rather than tapes if I were to do that.) I don't like the idea of having my data smeared across the internet, and unrecoverable unless I have a working computer and internet. Neither of which may be the case if something bad has gone wrong. So I'm quite happy with my revised solution. It addresses the issue, it uses commodity hardware and media, and the manual side of the process is clear and unlikely to be stuffed up by tired humans. :-) luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
