[Sussex] AMD Sempron Chips and BIG backups

[Anthony Rangecroft]

Ronan wrote:
>Secondly, is anyone routinely backing up large amounts of disk
>space (as in 100GB+).  How are you doing it?  Using a tape drive seems
>to be becoming more and more expensive and I'm wondering whether I can
>implement an alternative backup system (for example a duplicated server
>which rsyncs nightly).  What about off site backups?
>
>Any thoughts, tips on any of the above gratefully received.

Just seconding that.  In my case we're talking incy wincy 80Gb backups but 
remote, as I'd like to put the home fileserver in the loft one 
day.  Knowing zilch about such matters the supposedly KISS scheme I've come 
up with is as follows.

The fileserver will have a fixed system disk and an 80Gb exchangeable data 
disk.  The data is backed up over the network to a similar exchangeable 
data disk in another PC and verified.  If the file server's data disk fails 
the backup disk can be swapped in.  Also the file server can be remotely 
dual booted (by editing grub's ls.conf before shutdown?) using a small OS 
(e.g. DSL?) on the data disk, so that the system disk config (or 
partitions) can be backed up on the data disk.

Is that blue sky or brown?  Is there an 'rdd' command?  ;-)   Help.

Anthony