Backup medium

[Joel Hammer]

I backup to another harddrive in the same box, but, if I were more diligent,
I could backup to a drive in a different box on my home network. I use tar
to do incremental backups everyday, so, I could, in theory, find any file
removed from my system in the last 365 days, if all were going right, which
often it is not.

With linux, you are only limited by your imagination. You could also
just use cp with the appropriate options to do a backup every day to a
hard drive. I do this for one of my boxes. A lazy way, but it works! At
least one person on this list loves rsync.

Tape drives may be cheap but the tape may be expensive. And, one bad
spot on the tap might spell the end for your data. Tape drives are also
slow and noisy and require user intervention. 

Finding an old PC, installing linux on it with a network connection, and
a big hard drive, might be a fairly cheap way to backup up your computers.

Joel

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:29:06PM -0400, Harry G wrote: > 

> > Define "small users".  
> 
> Just one or two users.  If you saw me, you would be hard pressed to 
> call me a "small" user, though  :0)  
> 
> 
> Also, some information on what the box is used
> > for might help.  How much data do you need to backup, and how often
> > do you need to back it up?
> 
> My personal business box, and I need to keep a gig or so of data in 
> safe keeping.
> >
> > FWIW, tape drives can cost significantly less than $800 (like i see
> > DDS3 drives starting at $269, and AIT1 drives starting at $469).
> 
> 
> I like the prices.  I will check that out.
> 
> 
> > Sure, you could backup on a 2nd HD, however when that drive dies (and
> > some day it will die, i assure you), you lose everything that is
> > backed up on it.  Also, if this is mission critical data that you're
> > looking to backup, its not the best idea to keep your backups in the
> > same physical box as the server.  If something happened to the
> > server, you could loose yoru backups (say it got hacked, and someone
> > did a "rm -rf /", or there was a power surge, and it fried everything
> > in the box).
> 
> No, it isn't mission critical, except, of course, my income is at risk. 
>  Would I die, no.  Would I kill someone, maybe.  (Just joking!)
> 
> 
> I was thinking about a old HP Netserver Dual 350 I have sitting around 
> doing nothing for a backup box.  It has a couple of SCSI 9 gigs in it, 
> but of course, it doesn't do me anygood in a fire situation, as it is 
> kind of hard to carry home.
> 
> I will check out your suggestions.  
> 
> I really appreciate all the help from you, Net Llama, and all the other 
> pro's on this list.  It is one of the few I found that folks know their 
> stuff!
> 
> 
> Harry G
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