Actually, the strategy you describe below is what I will be employing. Up until now I have been doing the regular CD/DVD backup, but, as can be seen by my hard drive dying recently, this is not frequent enough. A daily copy to an external drive, in addition to the regular DVD backup should meet my needs.
Owen On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 04:54:53PM -0400, Pat Regan wrote: > Kevin Otte wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 09:32:00AM -0400, Owen Berry wrote: > >> I would classify it as delayed remote raid. :-) Not a backup, but useful. > > > > Very useful. > > > > Quite useful, but still scary :). > > > I have a cron job that does this via rsync with SSH keys every night. Disks > > are cheap. The script is simple. While it may not qualify as a full backup > > to the "enterprise" geeks here, it definitely saves some serious headache. > > The first rule to follow to greatly improve the quality of a backup is > to seperate the read/write mechanism from the media. I use hard drives > for backups myself, but only for short term. DVD burners and media are > quite cheap (at least 4x media is cheap, probably 8x by now). > > I trust my mirror plus my extra backup drive with my data for about a > week to a month, usually (My backup drive is sized right that it can be > wiped and used as a spare for the mirror). I might be more paranoid if > I didn't mirror my revision control repositories to my web space and usb > drive, though. :) > > Anywho, I am babbling. All I am trying to say is that if you really > want to keep your data safe, you can get a 60 dollar DVD burner and a > 100 disc spindle for less than a hard drive and USB enclosure. The > capacity is not the same, but most people don't actually have 4.3 gig of > data that actually needs to be backed up. > > Pat -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
