Backup devices

[Iain Stevenson]

I guess this RAID may work too - http://linux-ide.org/chipsets.html - 
although I wouldn't
want to be a pioneer ;-)

I quite liked Graham's suggestion of using a DVD-RW - has anyone experience 
with one that works?  I've given up on tape.

  Iain


--On Monday, June 3, 2002 11:54 am -0500 Robert Brandtjen 
<rob@prometheusmedia.com> wrote:

> On Monday 03 June 2002 10:33 am, Iain Stevenson wrote:
>> That doesn't protect against the situation where rubbish gets written to
>> the RAID array - you may want to go back to an offline copy pre-dating
>> the problem.
>
> yep, I know, incremental back-ups are deriguer- however, he needs on site
> storage while he offloads to a remote site, AFAIK, the Promise IDE raid
> drivers are in the stock Linux Kernels as of 2.4.18 or so, I would expect
> (maybe?) they are in the PPC versions as well.
>
> depending on his pipe, it could take hours and or days to do a full
> back-up, a  local back-up holding the data on a mirrored raid is cheap
> insurance - 80 gig  Seagate cudas are on sale for 110.00 over the net
> right now.
>
> Standard practice, for those who can, is Raid Level 5 with incremental
> daily  back-ups to tape, followed by a monthly complete back-up to tape.
> Also, one  should make a separate snapshot (if customized install) - a
> sort of "frozen  known state"
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