Backup medium

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings,

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Jerry McBride wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:09:56 -0400 Harry G <harrycg at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > What is a good choice for a backup medium for small users, other than 
> > something like a $800 tape drive?  (For use with LInux, of course!)
> > Is a 2nd drive a good choice?
> > 
> 
> Buy yourself a mobile mount harddrive kit for like $5.00, put a cheap 80
> gig drive in it. Shutdown, install drive, power backup, do backups,
> shutdown, remove drive and power backup your computer... works like a
> charm.
> 
> If you can't possibly take down your computer, then you're into something
> more professional like tape drives. 

   Or use a cheapie low-end leftover 486/Pentium as your 'backup' box.  
Send the backup files across your ethernet to the 'backup' box.  If you do
your backups manually (as opposed to launching them from cron) once every
few days or a week or even monthly, the 'backup' box only has to bee
booted occassionally and the main server/box doesn't need to be rebooted
at all.

      --- Jay
             
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