Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 19:49:49 +1000 From: Robert Chalmers <robert@chalmers.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape drive Message-ID: <36B2D5BD.40F8DB86@chalmers.com.au> References: <199901291501.KAA22170@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <19990129214304.10992.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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The solution I use is another machine on the network. I built up a spare machine, ran a cable out to it, locked in its own little wall cabinet in a location remote in the building from the main work area, and as it doesn't need to be accessed very ofter - if ever - it is hard for me to get at, let alone burgulars. If the place burns down, well I figure I'll have enough to worry about anyway. But in that event I have a tape backup, and I take a copy about once a month of the entire system. 1. So, regular backups to the HDD across the network, in the wee small hours. 2. Regular - not so frequent backups to a tape to store off site. Monthly. Tapes take AGES to complete and require attention unless you have Bill Gates' loot and can afford a carosel. Done monthly you should only need 12 tapes for the year. If you don't have a network, its easy to make one, and scrounge up an old Adaptec controller, buy a couple of big HDDs, cheaper than tapes these days and stuff them into an old 486, or pentium. Cable it out to the outside shed. If you live in the US where 128K ISDN lines are cheaper than tapes here in Australia, set up an offsite server and backup across a direct link. Really safe. Cheers Bob Greg Black wrote: > > > For daily backups, you might consider a small number of large > > > IDE drives. They'll be fractionally more expensive in the short term, > > > but cheaper in the long run, and they'll certainly back up faster. > > > > The problem I have with this solution is that it seems that you are > > putting all your eggs in one basket. If that backup fails > > catastrophically, you lose _all_ your backups at once. Seems that you > > would have to backup your backups occasionally. So, you're still stuck > > with doing tapes or some other media for the backup^2. > > Indeed -- when the machine catches fire and the "backup" disks -- http://www.chalmers.com.au. Publications From China in 24 different languages. English, French, German, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Burmese, Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Persian, Swahili, Sinhalese, Thai, Tamil, Urdu, Vietnamese. China Books for CIBTC, Beijing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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