What backup method(s) do you use?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Apr 19 12:44:22 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 04:36, Chris Linton-Ford wrote:

> Wow..
> 
> We also use a dedicated box with a Perl script and rsync/ssh, but we use
> 250G external USB2 disks encrypted with cryptoloop to allow secure offsite
> backups. USB drives are so cheap nowadays that they are a reasonable
> alternative to expensive tape drives, which never store as much as they
> claim to anyway.

I get the same effect with backuppc by storing its archive on
a RAID1 set containing 2 internal disks that are always
online and an external drive that is periodically connected,
re-synced, then removed and rotated offsite. 

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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