On 2008-02-09, Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:03:47 +0100 > Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I don't want to use tape. > I was never much of a fan of tape myself, either, having spent far too many > hours trying to re-thread QIC tapes that ran off of its spool. That's why, > you'll notice, I use a fileserver to do backups. QIC tape sucks. DLT is much nicer. > The fileserver solution, though, is in my opinion the simplest of all. My > fileserver lives on top of a cement block in an out-of-the-way corner of my > basement where it is cheerfully ignored. Backups happen every night on > schedule, I have reports of success, failure or "unusual circumstances" in my > inbox every morning when I get up and check my email, and nothing else is > required on my part at all. I use a combination of both. Nightly backups are spooled to a file server, and a weekly cron job writes the previous week's backups to DLT tape for archiving. -- John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
