jdd wrote:
Eberhard Roloff wrote:
In fact that means that your usb drive will "only" need to accomodate 200GB+ "a little more". Ex 300GB will most likely do for a VERY long time.
I think you did miss the point.
Yes I did. Sorry for this. I wonder whether your type of usage, while being extremely impressive to me, fullfills what the subject "backup for home users" tries to promise. ;-))
I can dl a cd in 10 minutes and a dvd in four hours. I have a collection of 1000+ films. I have each month 4cd and 1 dvd of linux alpha distro (and often more)
all this is filling my drive.
I have also (right now) 4 hours of dv video (50Gb) and the 3 dvd O made from it (30Bg with the associated files I need to keep for editing purpose)
all this is very important right now but will have nearly no interest in some days (only the dvd resulting will have meaning)
it's impossible to backup all this, I already have problems keeping them one month :-)
You might invest into a large raid array and keep multiple generations of your data there, on a as needed basis, if disk failure or data loss by operator error really concerns you.
I only want to say that no backup strategy is univesal, anybody must find one that suits his needs. yours or an other :-)
I completely agree. And I never intended mine to be understood to work universally for anyone. It just does what I want and what I think I need. regards Eberhard
jdd
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