[Gllug] Cheep backup solution

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 10:02, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Hearns [mailto:john.hearns at cern.ch]
> > Sent: 21 August 2002 17:54
> > To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Gllug] Cheep backup solution
> > 
> > I kinda disagree with the ideas of making backups to
> > another hard drive.
> > Still gives me the willies.
> > Guess I'm old-fashioned...
> > 
> > I'd still say CD-Rs for home use - we found a package on
> > the list a couple of months ago. What WAS it called...
> > It also creates disaster-recovery CDs for you too.
> 
> I had a go with mondo which sounds like what you are talking about but I
> have over 650MB of stuff to back up and I don't want to have to swap the
> disks over.  
I might be wrong, but surely you just do the full backup once?
Then you do incrementals every night...

So you have an initial set of CDs,
then leave once CD in the drive for days on end.

Them wise to do another full one every few weeks.

Or am I barking and Mondo won't do incrementals?


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