Guy,
I use a hot-swap sata enclosure for my disk backup. Mine is installed in
one 5.25" slot, elsewhere I have used an external esata version of the
same thing. Cheap and gives me the full native speed of the disk.
cheers
Eyal
Guy Watkins wrote:
} -----Original Message-----
} From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-
} owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Leslie Rhorer
} Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 9:36 PM
} To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
} Subject: RE: Is My Data DESTROYED?!
}
} > Cool, I learned something. Thanks.
} >
} > I use disks too. Could "seek" using dd, but I also gzip my stuff and
} use
} > cpio. :( Anyway, I almost never need to restore a file. :)
}
} I rather like fbackup combined with gzip, but I don't know if there
} is a Linux port of fbackup. I use fbackup to create a named index for
} each
} backup set, whether on disk or tape. This makes it easy to see if a
} particular file is on an archive without having to load the archive.
}
Where do you keep this index? Hopefully not on the disk that needs to be
restored. :)
I thought about it, for my needs I don't need an index. You don't need an
index for a full restore and I only need to restore once every few years.
And so far, never needed a full restore, just a file or so. I can live with
a few hours to restore 1 file. But I really need a faster backup. My 500GB
USB disks gives me about 15 MB/sec. I don't know why it is so slow. Should
be able to do 40+.
Oh, I did have a 22 tape library with a DLT-8000. But it failed a few years
ago. Was really cool, but took forever to backup 300-400GB. I guess my USB
disk is about the same speed, and it takes forever too.
--
Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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