[Gllug] Backup recommendations

Tue Feb 12 16:50:02 UTC 2002

On Tuesday, 12 Feb 2002, Kim Hawtin wrote:
>most of our rack mount servers have USB. now USB is not the fasted
>media for transfering data. but for an overnight backup its fine.

That depends on how much you might need to use systems overnight and
your need to remount things read-only during backup (an absolute
necessity if you use loopback-encrypted filesystems and just dump
complete images). It depends, really...

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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