[olug] Backups??

[Jay Swackhamer]

USB hard drives look like any standard scsi drive, I use one regularly to
transport large amounts of ISO's and video between sites for clients.

I'm a big fan of Disk-Based backups, due to the greater reliability(As
long as the machine is never powered down)

The best-case scenario would be to have a machine with mirrored drives to
backup to, and then back that machine up to another media Tape/DVD for
offsite storage.

Simple backup = Machine with large hard drive, automated rsync to sync your
main workstation to the backup machine.

I am working with a client that is going to do offsite backups of
user-data (My Documents/etc....) using rsync/bacula/others depending on
the client. I'll forward the experiences with different schemes.

> I backup to DVD when I think about it...or monthly.  I need to move to
> weekly but with my import of all my CD's, my backups have grown by 15GB.
>  8)
>
> Craig Wolf
> Linux Web Server Support
> Desktop/Network Specialist
> 402-894-6283
>
>
>>>> dekauff at cox.net 2/27/2006 >>>
> Since my hard drive failed and I lost most of my "life", I've become
> keenly aware that I need a back up system. So I've got several
> questions.
>
> First of all, I'd like to do an informal poll and find out what people
> are using to back up their personal data with Linux. I figure this
> will
> be of interest to others as well.
>
> Secondly, I'd like to know if anyone has experience using the USB Hard
> drives as backups to their Linux data and what that experience has
> been.
> I'd like to know what you had to do to get it working.
>
> Thirdly, I've toyed with the idea of getting an older machine and
> putting a larger hard drive in it to serve as a backup but that seems
> kind of iffy. Has anyone done that?
>
> Thanks in advance for participating in my "informal poll"! Any
> suggestions are welcome!
>
> Don K.
>
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