Need Suggestions for Automated Backup

[Net Llama!]

On 12/01/03 18:39, Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm going to be deploying another set of servers very soon and need to 
> work out some kind of backup scheme for servers that will be running a 
> database and several web applications.
> 
> I know that most people use a tape drive and cron job to backup stuff. 
> However, right now my budget is really tight, and I was wondering how 
> good CD-ROM backups are. I haven't heard of anyone using it, and I'm 
> wondering if it is because they are unreliable. I'm thinking of the 
> following scheme:
> 
> 1. Tar all files to be archived into a humongous file
> 2. Mount CDROM drive (with blank CD inside)
> 3. Copy humongous tar file to CD
> 4. Unmount CD
> 
> All operations are to take place possibly around 4am local time.

Well, its both the fact that they aren't 100% reliable, and the fact 
that they only hold 700MB each, which isn't that much in the grand scale 
of things these days.  You'd prolly be better off doing some kind of 
RAID disk duplication scenario.


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