On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:25:36PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 15:21 9/11/2003 +0200, you wrote: > >Do you folks have prefered backup utils and methods? > >ie tar or cpio, perhaps something else? > >Is there a beter way to backup, instead of tape perhaps to another > >Harddrive? > > Tape is old, linear, slow, EXPENSIVE, and it breaks. Nasty stuff, no > one should use it anymore really. You want size, get a 160GB for $100 > ($0.625/GB), and by the way you'll get way more speed than tape would > ever give you along with the neat non-linear access, real-time speed, > yadda yadda yadda. You want an off-site backup? Put the drive in a > removable case.
Bzzzt. Thanks for playing :-) Tape has its place. In the home, sure, tape is usually not needed, but in the enterprise, somehow the thought of backing up my systems with multi-terabyte disk farms to disk and keeping multiple images lying around doesn't seem practical without tape. We're up to about 200 220GB tapes in one of our libraries and it's growing, not shrinking. Tape, properly configured, is not slow. Most modern tape drives these days have the ability to outperform disk drives. Writing at 10-15MB/sec is not uncommon. > My preferred method: one old P100 machine in a corner of my study, > running RH9. The system runs on a 1GB drive but has two 120GB drives > in a RAID-1 configuration, on separate EIDE channels of course, and > /dev/md0 is mounted as /backups. The system allows no access at all > except for SSH and syslog (this is the central remote syslog server > for the house). Of course, the usual precautions are in place against > remote root logins, etc., and SSH allows access for only the user > "backups", using certificates and not passwords. I also back up to hard disk at home, using a variety of scripts. I've just started working with rsnapshot (from sourceforge) and that seems to work nicely so far. > The only catch is my wife's computer, since I do not have rsync for > Windows 2000. I need a way to use Putty (more likely, pscp) to do > rsync's job, but I have not figured that out yet. Why not smbmount the Win2K system's hard drive on bakman and then rsync from there? That's what I've been thinking about doing. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
