On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:26:39 -0500 (EST) Max Pyziur <pyz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > With so much content (disk, data, text, photos, video) moving (if not > already moved) to the digital realm what recommendations does the Linux > desktop community have for storage/backup. My backup scheme currently uses a 500 Gig usb2.0 drive and rsync running in cron every night. Rsync is a bit of a pain to get setup right with the gazillion options and the obscure quirks of behavior (directory names mean one thing with trailing / and another without it :-), but after enough experimentation and trial runs, you can get it doing pretty much anything you want it to do. One of the options I like is the --backup-dir option so I can have it stash the files that changed since yesterday in a separate directory when it is doing its daily backup. This way I have a complete archive of everything in case I realize I need a backuop from 3 or 4 days ago. If I get really ambitious, I can copy the older backup-dirs to DVDR when I start to run out of space - If I'm not ambitious, I can just delete the older dirs when I run out of space :-). The Maxtor drive I bought came with NTFS already setup on the whole disk, but a little work with fdisk and mkfs soon fixed that and converted it to ext3.
