OT - backup supplements

[Bill Vermillion]

It was Sat, Feb 26 18:31  when ryanx at indy.rr.com said "Mia kusenveturilo estas
plena da angiloj. And continued:

> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 05:18:46PM -0500, Leefp1 at aol.com said:

> > For those of you with huge data files this strategy might not
> > be viable. But my largest key file is only about 200 mb, so
> > for me it is doable. With the cost of hard drive space low,
> > and CPU speed high, I am thinking this plan is good.

> > Any comments?

> Hardware failure may not be the primary reason that backups come in
> handy but it does happen. If you're going to keep extra copies on disk
> instead of DVD, CD, or tape it would be better to keep them on a 
> separate drive.   

The lastest FreeBSD has snapshots and those could work well.
I've not gone that route yet so maybe Walter can tell us
if he's running FP on the 5.x series.

With snapshots you can even automate them, and then take the
snapshot and dump it, back it up, move it to another machine.

It only takes about 1 second to make a snapshot, and I've read
that some users have implemented methods so that users can
retreive their own files if they accidentally deleted them.

This means that you can snapshot during the day and then make a
tape of that - and have a consistant backup - something that is
pretty much impossible to do during the day if the system is
active.

If the system is only a filePro system then your approach would
be quite different than one with many user accounts too.

Bill

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