Backup Software, was: [Re: [Gllug] Production system...]

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On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Martin A. Brooks yowled:
> At 10:46 17/01/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>>I'll admit that the logo nearly got me using Bacula instead of DAR, but
>>making Bacula work with anything other than tapes appears to be agony.
>>(I'm using a three-stage CD-R / CD-RW-incremental / CD-R rolling backup
>>regime, where things either have to be cdrecorded *or* packet-written
>>depending on which medium I'm writing to. Makes the backup scripts kind
>>of complicated.
> 
> Just as a general comment, I'd be _highly_ nervous about using any CD
> media for backups.

I don't have thousands or even hundreds of pounds to spend on a
dedicated tape drive. In any case, tapes in my experience fail a *LOT*
(*far* more than CDs) unless you spend a bomb both on the tapes and on
the drives.

... while my latest box (second-hand) came with a CD-RW drive... and
CD-RW drives are a hell of a lot more common than tape drives, so if
this machine should, say, be stolen (so I can't swap hardware out of
it), I'll not be in the soup.


Of course if you leave the CDs in the sun you're dead. But the same is
pretty much true of tapes. Stick a good CD-R in the cupboard and it
seems to last for ages.

-- 
`note to the crown prosecution service: Machine guns dont have a
 'stun' setting.' --- mjw
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