[Cialug] suggestions on HDD based backup

[Nathan C. Smith]

Those hard drives get HOT.  (yeah, I probably didn't need the caps).  So if you use a cartridge type system make sure it has fans or a cooling system.  I have one of those external bare-drive mount devices and I'm not sure I would trust it for prolonged use even though the drive is free to radiate heat.

-Nate


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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Tim Champion
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:51 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] suggestions on HDD based backup

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<mailto:timchampion at gmail.com>


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