[NCLUG] back ups

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 10:27:53PM -0600, William Dan Terry wrote:
>I'm just curious what means people are employing for back-ups these
>days, particularly given how much disk space systems can have. I do keep

We're backing up most of our stuff to hard drive these days.  I mount up a
drive, and use a set of programs to pump and index and split tar files
coming in via the network.  Then I use bzip to compress the individual
chunks.  I can get a full set of backups on all of our network machines,
and about a month's worth of incrementals.

The cost of two 80GB drives was about the cost of DDS media for a $1500
tape changer.  One drive is off-site at all times.

Sean
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