Good suggestion Kevin.
Robert can now choose which backup option to take - tape, CD burner , mobile
rack / hard drive.
My experience with backups, over many years, has led me to migrated from 1)
problematic tape to 2) lengthy CD burning disk jockey sessions, with
occasional bad burns *ouch*, and finally to 3) fast and reliable removable
hard drives.
Just remember that hard drives can be mounted on LINUX and other OS's to
transport files from platform to platform without the need for additional
backup software that will be needed by tape drives and CD burners. I use my
own scripts and cron to backup LINUX files and resort to DOS batch files on
the other OS.
Robert, my suggestion to you is to determine how much data you need to
backup and choose the right media and what you want to pay in terms of
hardware, software, and time. Time is money and the more time it takes to
backup files presents another problem. The longer it takes to do the job,
the less often you will want to do it. Are you willing to endure long backup
sessions and play tape or CD jockey?
Bottom line is - Keep it simple and fast. If you can, make it fun - or have
someone else do it.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Fogleman" <snotr0cket@home.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Inexpensive Tape Drive
| I'd recommend buying a good CD burner and then going with Mondo. Mondo is
a backup program that not only archives your data to CD, but it
| also allows you to make the CDs bootable, and it allows you to restore
your *entire* system with one command that you type at bootup. It is
| definitely worth checking out, it's what I'm going to be using with the
server at my dad's law office.
|
| http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/
|
|
| --Kevin Fogleman
|
| Robert Haeckl wrote:
| >
| > Looking to buy an inexpensive tape backup drive either new or maybe from
| > Ebay. Would like to put a full backup and a week's worth of daily
| > incrementals on one tape (~8-10 GB ought to be enough). I've been
| > tarring selected directories onto a zip disk and occasionally burning an
| > archive, but I would prefer to do full backups. Anybody have
| > suggestions or preferences? ATAPI vs. SCSI? Seagate vs. HP vs.
| > OnStream vs. ...? 8mm vs. Travan vs. ADR vs. ...?
| >
| > -Robert
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