5 Apr
2002
5 Apr
'02
10:52 a.m.
I'm
becoming convinced that the safest way to preserve software is to
keep it on a live filesystem that's frequently backed up, using at
least one type of relatively modern storage media - or at least on
mylar tape, although that's impractical for large amounts of data (and
impractical for me because I haven't acquired a tape punch/reader
yet). Any thoughts on this?
I've already become convinced the only practical way to preserve it is onto
live filesystems that are regularly backed up. found one. My idea is to build a Linux box with EIDE
RAID setup to mirror a
couple BIG EIDE disks (80+ Gigabytes). Then have everything else backup to
those disks. I've figured out good ways to backup UNIX (rsync), VMS (BACKUP
to an NFS mounted disk should work), and MacOS (Retrospect can backup via
FTP). What I've not figured out is a way to backup Windows.
Windows can mount linux drives via Samba. Just use your favorite windows
backup program to back up to a file on the linux machine. I currently back
up two of my windows machines to the third in this manner.
Eric