On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:43:19PM -0600, Chris Twa wrote:
> Okay all -- just wondering what sort of backup strategy you use for your
> *nix hosts...
At work, we just use tar with daily differentials and once a week full
backup to a near-line staging server. From there stuff gets written to
LTO tape. We have a 24 tape library with a total capacity of 19.2TB.
It's economical for large amounts of data. Not so economical for only a
few hundred GB. We go back 6 weeks with routine backups for disaster
revovery or to recover accidentally deleted/modified data.
At home, I just copy everything onto a 750GB Seagate external drive. It
has copies of all the data off my servers, workstation and WinXP laptop.
It's disconnected when not in use.
I also burn data some data to DVD-RW on a rotating cycle. Basically all
the stuff that's not music or digital video. For music, I have all the
original CDs, for DV, I still have the footage on DV tape so I won't lose
data but it would take time to reconstitute if both the external backup
drive and internal primary storage died.
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