On Sat, 8 May 2004 10:39:30 -0500 "Bill Gradwohl" <bill@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Trying to undelete something is too unreliable. What is reliable is > backup, of course. Home users typically don't have tape drives and end > up with machines that haven't been backed up in months, if ever. I've picked up used DLT tape drives on eBay for ~US$30 with tapes ~US$5-10/ea. I have a perl script that runs dump/xfsdump on all the filesystems in the middle of the night and writes the dumps to disk. Once a week all the level0 dumps are moved to tape and the process starts over. Backup doesn't have to be expensive. -- -John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
