On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 10:18, Ian Pilcher wrote: > As I've learned to my sorrow, no amount of RAID will protect you against > a misplaced 'rm -rf'. > > I would love to have a *real* backup of my music collection. > Unfortunately, by "real" I mean some sort of relatively stable media > that can be put in a safe deposit box or something -- i.e. a USB disk > drive is out. Why? Ipods are pretty sturdy things and a laptop drive in a usb case is approximately the same - or a full size drive if you need over a hundred gigs. The trick is to have more than one and rotate them so you don't lose the data at the end of their expected several year life. > To the extent that I've looked, tape solutions are just > too damn expensive. If it isn't too big, a dvd writer might be a solution. My preference is to have another machine on the network running backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) so there is always an on-line copy with at least a week of history in case you accidentally delete something. Then I periodically raid-mirror that to an external drive that is rotated offsite. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
