From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 10:36:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C53316A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:36:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from out006.verizon.net (out006pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45EC743D6A for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:35:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.161.96.170]) by out006.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20031228183559.VUQO3734.out006.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:35:59 -0600 Message-ID: <3FEF2300.1030601@mac.com> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:37:52 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joachim Dagerot References: <200312280819.hBS8Ji431054@thunder.trej.net> In-Reply-To: <200312280819.hBS8Ji431054@thunder.trej.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out006.verizon.net from [68.161.96.170] at Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:35:58 -0600 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What logs etc do I need to checkfrequently? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:36:18 -0000 Joachim Dagerot wrote: [ ... ] > I realise you are right. The thing is that this is a home system and I > have (had!) around 230 GB of data that was non-replicable. I am not > aware of a deasent backup system that can handle that amount of data. There are three main alternatives: 1) hard drives -- get another HD or two and back up all data from your main filesystem daily via cron (perhaps locally, perhaps to a second machine); very cheap but iffy reliability...more of a "hot spare" solution than a true backup solution, but reasonably effective. 2) DVD burner -- cheap, limited media capacity but you can burn 20-odd DVD's (modulo achieved compression ratio) in a sane amount of time 3) tape-- main candidates are probably sDLT (up to 320GB per tape capacity) or maybe Ultrium (LTO?)...expensive (~ $3000+), best reliability by far, and best support for incremental backups to conserve media costs -- -Chuck