Backups was Restoring MBR - Solved

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

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).

my two cents =)

-miah