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My office DB server sits in the back closet, I've dropped a couple of
big drives into it. Every night at 3am my webserver and desktops rsync
any changes over to the server to drive A. So I have a snapshop of
last night. Then on the backup server after the rsync is done I gzip
everything and copy that daily snapshot to drive B. Then once every
couple of months I burn a couple of snapshots to a dvd and clean up
drive B again. <br>
<br>
Benefits:<br>
- it's automated. and it's fairly fault tolerant. If I forget to
clean up drive B I lose my daily archives but not my last night's
backup. Easy to add another desktop into the process as well.<br>
Cons:<br>
- It's not meant to be a bare metal easy restore. I'm just backing up
data (/home directories and config files). And after zipping I can fit
my entire operation on a DVD. I certainly don't have anything
approaching 700gigs.<br>
<br>
But first and foremost, when it comes to backups, remember that HD
space is cheap cheap cheap, so use it liberally. <br>
<br>
g.<br>
<br>
Chris Irwin wrote:
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cite="mid:1c1c13c71001081101h1954c6a7g5fcc663a8078bdbe@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">So it looks my Tape Library is no more. It is an ex-Tape
Library.<br>
<br>
I thought I would ping the list to see what everybody else is doing for
Backup and Recovery, both in terms of physical storage (I've got 700GB
and growing) to software used.<br>
<br>
I'm currently thinking about buying a few 2TB disks to use as my
physical media and swap them every week, then something like BackupPC,
rsync, or rdiff-backup to dump onto whatever disk is currently mounted,
possibly giving me nightlies within that week.<br>
<br>
For my Linux systems (read: important systems) restoration from a hard
disk would be as simple as cp and grub-install from a live-cd. What
about Windows and Mac OS? Are there any simple ways to restore those
systems without having to fall back to restoring data on a fresh
install? The Mac is my girlfriends primary work machine so downtime for
reinstalling and re-licensing is rather undesirable.<br>
<br>
The Windows machine is a toy for games, but reinstalling everything on
that is such a pain that I'd like to make restorations simple there too.<br>
<br>
Ideally I'd like to spend as little as possible on this, so things like
LTO-4 drives are out of the question.<br clear="all">
<br>
-- <br>
Chris Irwin<br>
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>><br>
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