On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 10:29, Mike McCarty wrote:
> I know it's bad form to reply to myself, but I just realized
I
> forgot to plug my favorite backup system here:
>
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
> This stores backups on disk using a clever compression and
> linking scheme to greatly increase the number of backups it
> can hold and it provides a nice web interface to browse
> the backups. You can restore to the original location or
If I understand what you wrote correctly, this is not a backup
utility. It simply pushes the backup issue onto another machine.
The backup medium must have an expected lifetime longer than
the medium being backed up.
I deal with that by using RAID1 (mirrors) for the archive
and periodically swapping one out and re-syncing to another.
I do it mostly to have an offsite copy but it has also
been a quick fix for a drive failure and would allow a
theoretically infinite life for the copy - or at least as
long as anyone cares about it...
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell(a)gmail.com