Backups was Restoring MBR - Solved

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:35:27PM -0500, miah wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:42:34PM -0500, Rich Braun wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> and for the low low cost of $1000 I can have a complete backup
> solution.  Sure. I'd rather just buy a 200gig drive for $100 and do
> some rsync madness.  Yesterday, newegg was doing a $70 for 200gig
> deal.  Thats a much better deal than a used autoloader that probably
> doesn't include a warranty.  Tapes are nice, because you can easily
> lock them in a fireproof safe, but they're also slow compared to to
> the access that you get from a disk drive thats already mounted inside
> a computer.  You say rsync can be slow due to bandwidth concerns.. But
> you could just do your first backup with rsync locally, from that
> point on its going to be minimal usage as rsync will only copy the
> changed bits, not the whole file (unless you want to copy the whole
> file).

And for an additional $30 or so you can buy a USB2/Firewire
external enclosure to house the drive. When you aren't using it,
lock it in that fireproof safe.

AIT becomes useful starting in small offices, where you can
distribute the cost of the drive and tapes over a dozen or more
machines. In a 3-5 computer home office, miah's solution is far
more cost-effective.

-dsr-

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