>> and pushing all this data over my internet
>> connection isn't feasible.
Yes, it is...
If you use
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/, you can put everything outside.
BackupPC will use rsync (minimal traffic) and will use md5 numbers to avoid
copying a file more than once (minimal space)
The first shot will be painful, but after that, it is perfectly possible
over just about any decent connection.
I can provide you resources in my little datacenter if you go that way.
Lemeno...
ET
Alex Dean writes:
> That's pretty much what this server already does. Every night it wakes
> up every other machine in the house, makes a backup of each, and then
> puts the other machine back to sleep. Now, I'm trying to make a plan for
> those backups to survive the house burning down or some other total
> catastrophe. I don't want to lose 10 years of digital photos in an
> emergency like that, and pushing all this data over my internet
> connection isn't feasible.
>
> alex
>
> On Oct 20, 2009, at 6:42 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
>
>> I would install a second eth? adapter in the "real" machine and have a
>> cheap
>> puter with a cold-swap SATA bay connected to it.
>> Every nite I wold WOL the little sucker, run the backup over the
>> dedicated
>> Ethernet, and shut it down.
>> Any hardware failure (other than the Ethernet) can be dealt with with
>> cheap
>> hardware and outside the boundaries of the server.
>> YMMV... :)
>> ET
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Alex Dean writes:
>>
>>> I make regular backups to a software RAID1 disk array. I'd like to
>>> periodically store some backups offsite. Been thinking about buying 2
>>> extra drives, and adding 1 of them as a hot spare to the RAID1. Then
>>> remove it from the array, store it elsewhere, and add the other disk
>>> in
>>> its place as the hot spare. Every week or so, I'd plan to swap the
>>> offsite disk with the current hot spare.
>>>
>>> It seems like this should work. Anyone care to comment? If I buy a
>>> hot-swap drive bay for the server, can I add/remove normal SATA drives
>>> without restarting the OS?
>>>
>>> I was looking at something like this StarTech caddie, which protects
>>> the
>>> disk a bit more than other disk enclosures.
>>> http://www.startech.com/item/DRW110SATBK-Black-Serial-ATA-Drive-Drawer-w
>>> it
>>> h-Shock-Absorbers-Value-Series.aspx
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> alex
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