On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 22:07, David Purton wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:57:04AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:41:15PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:00:19AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: [snip] > > If you need to recover a snapshot (or file) from 12 months ago, a > > three-disk rotation isn't going to do much for you. > > We backup offsite on CD, so restoring files 12 months old can be > covered that way. > > The main aim is that if a helicopter lands on our office (we are at an > airport, right next to the helicopters ;) ) or someone breaks in a > does a runner wth our server, then we need to be able to get the files > we are currently working on.
Another method: If there's broadband service, 1. tar|gzip the data dir, and scp it to a cheap, old box sitting off site (say, with an internal 100GB HDD) that has firewire. 160GB should easily store 14 days at 15GB perday, if the data is even 33% compressible. 2. plug an external 160GB firewire disk into that box, and cp the tarball onto the external disk, and tote it to a 3rd site. You'll need a 2nd external 160GB firewire disk for rotation purposes. Thus, if office goes up in flames on the same day the building where the off-site PC gets burglarized, there would still be a 3rd copy out there. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Some former UNSCOM officials are alarmed, however. Terry Taylor, a British senior UNSCOM inspector from 1993 to 1997, says the figure of 95 percent disarmament is "complete nonsense because inspectors never learned what 100 percent was. UNSCOM found a great deal and destroyed a great deal, but we knew [Iraq's] work was continuing while we were there, and I'm sure it continues," says Mr. Taylor, now head of the Washington http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0829/p01s03-wosc.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
