[H-GEN] Linux backup tool of choice

[Bruce Campbell]

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On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Anthony Towns wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:21:09PM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote:
> > If you provide a backup system that uses an unreliable drive,
> > then do a verify that does a bit for bit check automatically after the
> > backup.  This is often hard because file systems are rarely static for
> > that long.  So instead use a better tape drive - one that reads the data
> > it has just written using a separate head.
>
> Although, with the size of disks these days, you can usually just dedicate
> a bunch of space on the disk to be a snapshot of your active set -- ie:

...

Its still single point of failure.  You want _another_ disk, preferably
within a separate machine (each can do snapshots for the other), and for
greater preference, at another site.

--==--
Bruce.


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