[ale] backup suggestions

[Timothy Ball]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 08:05:30PM +0000, michael d. ivey wrote:
> i need to backup between 5G and 15G of data.  i need to do it cheaply.
> i need to do it easily, with the possibility of a smooth restore.  and
> i don't have scsi or USB.  any suggestions on solutions you've used
> and been happy with?

Buy extra 80G HD's... they're just cheap now, and fast... and reliable.
Tapes are slow (and not reliable), cdroms to small, dvd-rams to 
expensive, flopticals are dead, zips are useless (until they click then
you can use in mobils).

Buy another ide-controler (doesn't ahve to be fast) and a pile of
drives... software raid5 and be done w/ it (use xfs and never fsck
either!) 

--timball

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