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Rich Braun wrote: >>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 > >___ > Rich, Thanks for the suggestion: since I'm not able to commit much money, I'll be unable to pursue AIT as an option. I do have CD-R's and Norton Ghost on the W2K box, but that's not something I can automate. However, my Debian box has a SAMBA server, so I can automate backups to the Debian machine and would like ideas about that. I also have some older Colorado tapes I could use in a pinch, although they're only about 350 MB per tape, and a DAT drive with a few tapes that's on a spare machine in my cellar. TIA. Bill
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