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 href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>><br>