[Gllug] backup solution

[Xander D Harkness]

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 21:52, Jack Bertram wrote:
> * Rich Walker <rw at shadow.org.uk> [030708 18:11]:
> > Jack Bertram <jack at jbertram.net> writes:
> > 
> > > Well, now that my hard disk drive has failed, 
> > 
> > I just used Dotco Software (0870 770 4267) to solve one of those. No
> > connection other than and so forth.
I would go for a DDS3 or DDS4 drive from ebay for £80-120

Tapes are about £1 each on ebay and then use AMANDA.

Kind regards
Xander

> 
> Unfortunately it's definitely a hardware failure so getting the data
> recovered will be too expensive.  It's of sentimental value rather
> than monetary so I'm going to have to live with it.
> 
> Thanks for the link though.
> 
> > > - Must work with Linux
> > > - Preferably IDE/cheap SCSI - my file server is an old 466 Celeron
> > >   without nice things like USB2 and Firewire
> > > - At least 10Gb per tape/cartridge/whatever
> > > - Withstand multiple writing/rewriting to same tape/cartridge
> > 
> > At work, we use:
> > 
> > 1x fast CD writer
> > 1x fireproof safe
> 
> I would prefer to back up onto something with more capacity than CD
> ROMs - I could always do incrementals onto CD but the full system
> backup wil have to be onto tapes, or I'll need hundreds of CDs.
> 
> jack
> 


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