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On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:00:24 +0100 Simon Waters wrote: > Gibbs wrote: > > > > So. Any advice, solutions or ideas? > > Be aware when backing up off site how long it might take to get 200GB > back in the event of a catastrophic failure your end. > > You can save bandwidth with rsync type protocols on backing up, but > not always on restoring! > > Some of the off-site backup companies offer to send you disks, or > similar if the worst happens, so worth using a specialist if this > will be an issue. > > Alternatively since USB drives are 60 quid a terabyte, you could > probably buy a load of those and take a copy of the data home each > night. > > As always test any system you choose, to make sure you can rebuild > the system from backups alone...... > > Simon The company I worked for previously had 2 in-house backup "solutions" (I really hate that term... it just seem to buzzwordy). For the office server they had 3x1TB USB drives, one was the master and stayed on-site for fast backup, the other two were duplicates of the master and were taken off-site alternately. For their 1&1 servers we wrote a script that tared up the whole filesystem hierarchy from a certain point, with specific exclusions, but every 1GB it would stop the tar and run a second script that ftped the current portion of the archive off to a specific FTP server and then continue with the tar. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq