On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 04:36:14AM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: > 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/ Yep, check out a perl-based app called rsnapshot. You can find it at freshmeat.net I use it. It works. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx
