Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:37:52 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Joachim Dagerot <joachim@dagerot.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What logs etc do I need to checkfrequently? Message-ID: <3FEF2300.1030601@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200312280819.hBS8Ji431054@thunder.trej.net> References: <200312280819.hBS8Ji431054@thunder.trej.net>
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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
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