Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3901 mails)

[riccardo <riccardo35@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 07:21 pm, Jack Malone wrote:
> on a hard drive in the
> system just for that purpose an its quick fast at about 2 hours to
> backup the 11 gigs an compare them. I need the tape backup for
> removing the night before's backup off site, aka taking it home with
> me. Then if the building burns down You have your data off away from
> the fire an in a safe place. I just copied the 11 gigs off to my test
> bench machine an fixing to see how long it takes to backup that 11
> gigs of stuff with bru now.
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 some years ago i used Yusuf Nagree's handy 'Taper' program to back up 
to Iomega Tape Drive, & Mr Nagree, in australia, was most helpful.
Now, during the day, i do cron-timed TAR.GZ backups of data files.

every second day, backup whole system to other drive/other partitions in 
rotation.

 Weekly, do RSYNC backups of whole system to spare HDs, plugged in just 
for the backup, and then taken off-site.

 it seems that it takes about 10 minutes to backup 6 gigs.

Could someone please be so kind and explain what are the enduring charms 
of Tape backups?

thanks
best rgds
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