backup

Hexren me at hexren.net
Fri May 13 01:34:14 PDT 2005


> Howdy,

> My server has an 18 gig drive in it. I'm looking to do incremental backups 
> every night, where my entire /ext partition will be mirrored elsewhere 
> (/ext is the only thing with anything special on it that would need to be 
> recreated).

> I was thinking of either backing up to my home machine, which for the most 
> part has a static IP (dynamic every 3-4 months), or getting an external 
> hard drive.  The server is a 1U.

> Does anyone have any suggestions, both for how to do this, and what kind 
> of media to use?  (External hard drive, tape drive, remote backup to my 
> home machine, etc.)

> Thanks!

> Regards,

> Matt

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Imho if possible a remote location should be the backup site as that
gives you a backup even if the Server is destroyed by *insert
something nasty here* pull the backup from your homemaschine and you
need not worry about dynamic ips.

Regards
Hexren



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