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Re: [PLUG] Incremental Backups to CD-RW
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On Tuesday 18 February 2003 11:29 pm, Paul wrote:
> Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> >>and/or monthly backups. For daily use, maybe dumping or syncing with
> >>another hard drive would be enough.
> >
> >See i think backing up to spinning disk is plain silly and insane, but
> > then again im old fashion and use to disks that crash every so often
> > (hence the backups). The theory behind a backup is you can put it in a
> > closet and its safe for a long time.... putting disks in the closet is
> > quite expensive and cumbersome.
>
> Disk mirroring, rsync'ing, or just copying data is what I had in mind.
> Either to another local disk, or to a remote host. What are the odds
> that within one week you will lose two hard drives? If you do, you
actually that is the big reason im fixing my backup system ;)
3drive in 2 days due to a poweroutage during the storm. about 40G lost total
and 5G prolly unbacked up and gone for ever. Out of 150G of total spinning
disk that is quite a chunk. Seeing as now i can only back up about 1Gig of
the data on tape, its just not working out. I can (and have) lose a few mp3s
and not cry, but if i lost a customers project, or my tax records... that
would suck hard.
> would still have your weekly backup to CD-ROM to fall back on. And how
> much of your data actually changes daily?
>
i change about 200-500MB a day between source, email and other data... really
about 300MB of it arguably can be recovered from various opensource cvs
servers, but those are a pain to remerge. Since IDE is horribly unreliable
arround here (about 12-15 months per IDE Disk) using a 120Gig disk to sync
things on is just not cost effective, and there is still the issue of
installing and removing a drive once a week...
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