Backup options for home

[Jerry Feldman]

On 11/06/2008 07:48 PM, jbk wrote:
> I use 4 60g usb drives that I rotate weekly and Backuppc to=20
> manage the backups. Once the software is setup which was a=20
> bear I have had reliable backups for 3 computers. The usb=20
> drives I got on sale for $60 each. The through put is now=20
> 6mb/sec, if you compile Perl yourself you can get 25mb/sec.
> Not that this addresses the original post, but, automating=20
> backups makes them more likely to happen.
>  =20
I think the last statement says it all. However, it is important that you=
 monitor it every once in a while. In the case of my personal backup fail=
ure as well as the BLU crash, had I monitored by auto backup more frequen=
tly, I would have saved myself some bucks in recovering some important fi=
les, and conversely, had JABR did the same with the BLU backups, we would=
 be in better shape.=20
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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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