[Gllug] Cheep backup solution

[Jonathan Dye]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hearns [mailto:john.hearns at cern.ch]
> Sent: 22 August 2002 10:02
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: RE: [Gllug] Cheep backup solution
> 
> 
> 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?

It didn't when I looked at it.

JD

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