Advice on external backup of a Linux server.

Arthur Pemberton dalive at flashmail.com
Thu Feb 10 02:26:32 UTC 2005


Rick Stevens wrote:

> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>>
>>> You could even swap between a few external drives so that you have a 
>>> USB drive in use, one on the shelf, one in the safety deposit box, 
>>> one home, one in the car, etc. Get as crazy as you like. :-)
>>>
>> Interesting idea. However. What if something goes wrong in the 
>> chasis, for example, power surge, all teh HDD's go? no?
>> The prob I have I have with the USB solution is that it requires user 
>> intervention.
>
>
> ANY backup solution requires user intervention unless you're backing up
> to something offsite.  You have to rotate your tapes, change CD-R or
> DVD-R or swap the hard drive (USB, firewire or hot-swap) and take the
> backup media off site if you want safety.
>
> If you leave the media near the system being backed up, you aren't
> secure.  I recommend to clients that, whatever media they use, AT LEAST
> get a fire-rated document box (about $100) and put the media in it.  If
> the building burns down or an earthquake occurs (both real possibilities
> here in Southern California), at least the backup will probably survive.

That was exactly my suggestion since the office is in a wooden building. 
What's the likely hood of being able to setup a box that mounts and 
backups to an external , USB HDD as soon as it's plugged in, then alerts 
the user(s) when it's done so that they may switch it off an store it 
somewhere firesafe?

I was considering a NAS solution in a firesafe box, but I'm guessing 
that if a wire can get into the box, it's nolonger firesafe

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