9 Oct
2004
9 Oct
'04
4:36 p.m.
For classicmp, how about off-machine rsync copies?
Even a simplistic 2nd internal drive and a cron rsync
drive 1 to
drive 2 gets you a lot of results for little effort.
Some time ago, I wrote support for what I've taken to calling "live
backup": basically, everything written to the disk is mirrored over the
net to a backup copy somewhere else. (In my case, on another of my
house machines, on a drive which holds nothing but those backup
copies. But the software is designed for use over long-haul links, and
I've had my laptop mirror itself to the backup space at home over
others' netlinks when traveling.)
Works a treat for defending against disks dying (which I have had
happen about twice since I started using it routinely; in each case,
the backup did exactly what it was supposed to, ensuring all the bits
were safe).
I could volunteer some space. How much disk space is involved?
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