-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 15:09, Michael Pobega wrote: > What is d-u's preferred method of backups? Now that I'm running servers > on my system (Apache, MySQL, SSH, etc.) I need to find a good method of > backing up, because no matter how much security someone has things may > still go wrong. > > So list your preferred methods of creating/restoring backups and the > pros and cons. Thanks!
*Much* more information needed. How much stuff? 50MB? 5GB? 500GB? 5TB? How compressible is it? Text/MySQL files or MP3s and JPGs? How important is it? Your own stuff, or a business' stuff? How big of a window do you have to back it up? 30 minutes at 23:15, and you're fired if it goes past midnight? All night between 17:30 and 07:30? How often will the lusers will "Michael, this stupid computer ate my work. Bring it back!!" (Meaning, of course, that they stupidly/carelessly deleted/overwrote it.) If it's a database, will the developers want regular copies restored for testing? Frequency? Nightly, weekly, every-other-day? Retention? Keep backups for a month? Quarter? Year? 7 years? Budget? Always a killer... For a small business that has crucial data, I'd buy a bunch of 250/320/500GB drives and put them in firewire external enclosures. Get a calendar and mark it Week 01 thru Week 53. With a Sharpie, label the drives/enclosures: Sunday A Sunday B Sunday C ... Monday A Monday B . . . Depending on how many weeks of retention you want, that's how many letter of the alphabet you go up. Then, on the calendar next to the week 01, write A Week 02, write B . . . Week NN+1, write A. That way I'd know which drive to use on which day. As for backing it up, tar. Works like a champ. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA %SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHVc7/S9HxQb37XmcRAgWhAJ0RYTwd6fGYT9NHIzQXsBWw1D+2rACdEKc5 ihtbfzEMINKhKUMVF2YRQPo= =TXOG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
