Kai Vehmanen wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > >>around, I'm not sure if I wanna spring the $200 for a pair of 120G+ >>drives. But we all know I'll regret getting something smaller. > > [...] > >> Does anyone here have some other clever solutions to getting >>reliable archives of recordings? My ardour sessions, even for demos Well, if you've ruled out the backup-to-harddisk option then this might not be for you, but it's really simple, so I thought I'd share. I have a pair of 120GB drives in my system, and a single 250GB drive as backup (Western Digital with 8MB cache and 3-year warranty, just bought at thenerds.net for $233US). The backup drive is in an external USB2/Firewire enclosure, and I connect it once a week (twice if I'm feeling paranoid that week) to do the backup: rsync -av --delete --exclude '/mnt/backup/' / /mnt/backup/ So /mnt/backup/ is then an exact copy of /, and the best part is, it's bootable and functions just like the original drive(s) if I stick it on the motherboard. And the backup process usually takes just about a half an hour, depending on how much new data I've added, of course. -Anthony http://nodivisions.com/
