USB/Firewire IDE case

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sun Feb 1 22:56:48 UTC 2004


Hi Rob,

   What are the chances I could pawn those scripts off of you? :)

Madison

Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
> 
>>Not yet, but it looks like I will be buying an external USB2 chassis
>>with removable 3.5" trays for backup of a server. If you aren't in a
>>desperate push for time, I will be happy to report my findings shortly.
> 
> 
> I've been happily using this sort of setup for personal backups for some
> years.  I have 2 x Firewire cases each with an 80GB IDE drive.  At no time
> are both of these drives onsite with my personal servers so I always have
> at least 1 offsite backup.
> 
> Each night my boxes do a full or incremental backups to a "staging
> server".  Every 2 weeks or so I bring one of firewire cases onsite and
> rsync the data from the staging area.  This is all done with scripts.
> 
> The exact frequency with which to take offsite backups is up to the
> administrators and owners of the data.  In the end the frequency (or lack
> there-of) is a trade off between convenience and data protection.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Rob
> 


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