On 02/16/2011 08:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 11:09 +1030, Tim wrote: >> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 13:45 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> Rsnapshot is just a useful front-end to rsync. It keeps snapshots of >>> an entire tree ordered by backup generation (using hard links to avoid >>> duplicating files). >> If you link, instead of duplicating, then you only have one backup of a >> file. So, if that backup has a problem...? >> >> Did I miss something obvious? > You pays your money and you takes your choice. If you want every backup > of your 10GB home directory to take up another 10GB of space, go for it. > Most people don't actually want that. They assume (naively or not) that > the backup medium is itself sufficiently reliable, for example I'm doing > it on a NAS configured with mirrored disks, which is fine for my > purposes. YMMV of course. I have a 1.5TB USB drive that is my repo server, archiver and backup on my Amahi server with a 120Gb drive. I am right now pricing out a 2TB USB drive ($80 on ecost) to put on another server for backing up the backup. I figure that will give me enough total redundancy to survive most disasters. This drive will only be used for a weekly backup and the rest of the time be kept in a firebox... -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
