On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 10:29, Mike McCarty wrote: > > I know it's bad form to reply to myself, but I just realized I > > forgot to plug my favorite backup system here: > > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > This stores backups on disk using a clever compression and > > linking scheme to greatly increase the number of backups it > > can hold and it provides a nice web interface to browse > > the backups. You can restore to the original location or > > If I understand what you wrote correctly, this is not a backup > utility. It simply pushes the backup issue onto another machine. > The backup medium must have an expected lifetime longer than > the medium being backed up. I deal with that by using RAID1 (mirrors) for the archive and periodically swapping one out and re-syncing to another. I do it mostly to have an offsite copy but it has also been a quick fix for a drive failure and would allow a theoretically infinite life for the copy - or at least as long as anyone cares about it... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
