Backups was Restoring MBR - Solved

[Rich Braun]

> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:16:16AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
>> 3. Backups at one-month intervals don't cut it. From now on, weekly at a
>> minimum. Suggestions for automating the process are welcome.

dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> cron and rsync. Lots of good options there.

AIT tapes, a tape jukebox and amanda.  Keep offsite copies at your office, in
your car, at a friend's house.  Protects against both accidental deletions and
physical loss of the computer system (fire/theft/tsunami).  Rsync can provide
only limited protection against physical loss (bandwidth requirements usually
restrict your backups to the same physical building, from which a thief could
walk out with all your computers).  Yes I've been burgled (1997) so I have
experience in the matter.

Go to eBay and do such searches as "ait drive", "ait autoloader", and/or "ait
tapes".  Prices are often ridiculously low; I've paid as little as $6 per
50-gig tape:  at that price I can even back up a pile of miniDV video tapes.

You can also find my old postings on the subject:  go to the blu mailing list
page at http://www.blu.org/pipermail/, go to the bottom of the page where it
has a google search box and look for 'ait' in list 'discuss'.  The box then
issues the following search to www.google.com:  'ait inurl:pipermail/discuss
site:blu.org' .

-rich