Paul A Houle wrote: > Disk-based backup ~is~ viable in various forms. For instance, it's > quite practical to back up stuff disk to a USB 2.0 or Firewire drive, > and it will finish faster than paint dries. I've found that network > backup onto disks works too: but anything that's marketed explictly as > a product for backup seems to be a scam. My favourite backup method is rsync'ing to an HD of the same size, mounted on another server in a different room. This way I can run daily, unattended backups and be reasonably protected against fire and robbery. Today, hard disks are larger, faster, more affordable and more reliable than tapes or other removable media. If only I could use a compressed r/w filesystem for the backup disk, I'd save a few bucks. JFFS2 is the only mature filesystem that can do that, but it doesn't appear to be usable with very large partitions. -- // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept. \X/ http://www.develer.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
