[Cialug] suggestions on HDD based backup

[Tim Champion]

The place we put our tapes off site is a bank safe deposit box, and I don't
think a NAS box would fit.  Also, we want to move the backup up data off
site daily, so a weekly rotation wouldn't work either.

Dava H - I don't think I'll use USB, I'm looking at SATA or eSATA interface.

As for planning for hard drive failure, I'm ordering a couple spare drives
just for that purpose. I AM concerned about the ruggedness and longevity of
a hard drive moving it around so much, which is one of the reasons I'm
asking this group.

Thanks for the ideas!

Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com


On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:39 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Josh More wrote:
>
> > I'd buy a few cheap Netgear ReadyNAS boxes, put two 1T drives in each
> > and use rsync to backup to multiple sets.  Once a week, swap devices.
> >
> Suggestion - use rsnapshot instead. It will keep versions, and can easily
> be configured to run with root privledges (using command restriction for
> that key).
>
> If you have Windoze boxen, grab cwrsync.
>
>        Lee
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