[NBLUG/talk] Backups?

[Steve]

Here is the perfect solution for your backups issue =)

http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard1.html

-Steve

(just a little early morning humor)



On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:04:00PM -0700, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Last week I lost my hard drive to a tragic case of a bad power source, and
> realized that the last time I had really backed anything up was 3 months
> ago.
> 
> Now that I have a semi-working system back up again, I'm trying to write a
> script to do my backing up, including files, system info (/proc stuff),
> and other daemon info (mysql, ldap, etc).
> 
> My backup media will be CD-R for permanent storage, and CD-RW for
> temporary storage.  In other words, I'd start out with a CD-RW and a full
> backup, then do daily (or weekly) incremental backups, copying the CD-RW
> contents, then burning the old CD-RW and new incremental backup back to
> the CD-RW.  When the CD-RW fills up, I'd burn it to a CD-R.  Lather,
> rinse, repeat.
> 
> At this rate, I'd use up a CD-R for each full backup (depending on size)
> and one or two CD-RW total.
> 
> I think I am making the assumption that each of my full backups will be
> less than 650/700 MB, which could result in backing up music or program
> downloads using some other process.
> 
> My question to the list is do you backup your home machines?  If not, what
> would you do if you lose it (no, seriously)?  Do you backup to some
> machine somewhere else?  Do you rely on other Kazaa users to backup your
> machine (just kidding)?
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> -- 
> Jeremy Turner - jeremy at linuxwebguy.com
> The LinuxWebGuy
> 
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