Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 13:02:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.homeunix.org>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Backing up my CDs [was Re: My horror story] Message-ID: <20020510122920.G40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <20020510115748.A18296@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Fri, 10 May 2002, Brooks Davis wrote: > Simply spending an hour or two setting up a decient piece of backup > software like amanda[0] make this statement rather inaccurate. I do > backups every weekday night on my home office network with a bit more > then two weeks per cycle. The total work required is to turn around > in my chair once each morning and move a tape. My disks are currently > small enough that I can use DDS3 tapes, but I expect I'll have to move > to VXA or similar in a few years. i can't refute the arguement there. yes, it's "just a matter of turning around and changing tapes" for some installations. most home users don't need something as heavy duty as amanda, since they're more likely to have a single machine they need backed up.. no, you, and i, are not "most home users". the average home users machine still has the ability of storing more data than can be backed up easily (assuming a level 0 backup for the first tape..) by any tape device. when you're talking about 200gigs of mp3s, though, you're really going to need to look at another backup system for just those mp3s. something not on tape, just highly reliable. some folk have discussed in the past of using hard drives (either mirrored, or in a RAID). check the archives for some details on what people here on -chat do. > [0] Most people seem to think amanda is the massivly complicated backup > system that is only useful for dozens of machines, but it's actually > quite easy to set up. The server takes a little time to set up, but > the clients require installing one small port, creating a single file on > the host (there might be a way around that), and adding lines for each > disk to the server's config file. I recommend amanda on any network > with more then one machine on it. once the server is configured, clients just kind of fall in to place. the article on amanda at backup central[0] (a chapter from O'Reilly's Unix Backup and Recovery[1]) is *very* helpful in the setup. very clear, very simple, and good. Another good resource is an article from SAMags Backup Issue, which is also available online[2]. i happen to like amanda, overall. [0] http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html [1] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixbr/ [2] http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7033/sam0204a/sam0204a.htm -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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