[nflug] backups on an nfs server ..on and on

[eric]

Making it work would add more redundancy. I just have this extra tape
drive laying around... so I guess that's why.  From what Darin said I
should be able to use the Dell tape drive, so it's probably me thats not
working.  I guess I can be satisfied with the tape drive temporarly not
working since I have the RAID drives to backup on, but I like to make
things work.

Richard Hubbard wrote:

>Big question... why tape?  It's slow, amazingly unreliable, and very expensive.
>
>Consider these tape drives (no tapes... just the drives)
>http://www.tigerdirect.com/Applications/Category/category_slc.asp?CatId=291
>
>Now consider these combinations
>First a  hard drive, for about the cost of a tape (not the tape drive, just the tape)
>
>http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=8
>
>next, an external enclosure...
>http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?Recs=10&Nav=|c:1204|c:2213|&Sort=0
>
>so you could get a bunch of external, "usb"  hard drives (which is also automatically recognized by most distributions of linux) that is fast, inexpensive, and actually more reliable than tape. 
>If you are worried about damage due to dropping, etc. Tape cartridges are just as vulnerable as hard drives, and since the medium in a tape cartridge is exposed to open air, is more susceptible to just dying of old age.
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: eric <eric at bootz.us>
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2006 8:23:06 AM
>Subject: Re: [nflug] backups on an nfs server ..on and on
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>I'm going to have to find an external scsi tape drive that is comaptible
>with linux, the one that I was using with what used to be a win2000
>server seems to be only semi compatible with linux it is an external
>scsi Dell PowerVault 110t
>
>I am able to rewind the tape but cannot write to it, I think Cyber was
>having the same kind of problem with an LTO??
>
>
>Robert Wolfe wrote:
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>>On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, eric wrote:
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>>>Cool, my server works great and it's really easy to recover files
>>>....then I discover that my home dir is 60 gb and my network server has
>>>only 170 gb of space, definitly not enough room for a mon-fri bkup.
>>>
>>>Isn't their a way (through tar) to delta files like in SCCS? Is it
>>>called increment?
>>>      
>>>
>>You could do a backup with tar and then burn the resulting tar file to
>>a DVD-ROM.  But to save space and store more data, you may want to
>>gzip the tar file after it is created.
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