On 02/18/2014 08:04 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Anton Aylward
[02-18-14 19:20]: [...] "Least Costly" is why I'm asking this. Backing up to cloud eats my monthly allotment of bandwidth. Last month I got a warning about that. Rsync is very good but it does have to ask what is at the other end. That eventually adds up. Buying another 1T drive is cheaper, but I'm going to run out of SATA ports on my motherboard :-)
I like the idea of backing up to DVD. Right now, after 'pruning' what I know about, ".thumbnails" and some caches, the non NFS mounted part of ~anton/ fits on a DVD. Just. That won't last for long.
I've configures, as I've mentioned, many of the subdirectories -- ~/Documents, ~/Music, and more -- into 5G partitions, looking forward to doing partition by partition backup when they are full enough to justify it. But right now they aren't that full.
No doubt there is software ... "backuponcd" might be a candidate.
I wonder if its even worth buying CDs rather then DVDs?
If you have lowered media requirements that much, why not get a couple of hand-fulls of smaller flash drives? Reusable, long life, cheap and probably more dependable.
+------------ | | IMPORTANT! This is about personal/home backup. | Corporate is very different | +------------- Don't I just wish! And 8G drive, no make that a 16G drive, will taking in ~/Music and ~/Photographs for a while yet. The problem is that they are NOT that cheap here in the GWN. High-street - make that something like Tiger or Egg A 64G flash card or a 128G USB thumb stick is about the same price as a 1T drive, -- maybe I'm doing it all wrong! By comparison 2 off 100 unit packs of DVDs cost less. That 200 x 5G = 1T. A few considerations. * the weekly/monthly/incidental backups on DVD show a 'history' that is very clear * using rsync to a drive/flash will need special consideration to handle 4 years of "generations" of changes. In effect the backup becomes a RCS mechanism. I'm open to suggestions there. * I have CDs and DVDs more than 10 years old that are quite readable. I've never had a rotating drive last that long! * I don't know the life expectancy of flash cards and thumb drives See http://agogified.com/97 I've seen notice that bulk USB drives from China/HK are ridiculously low in price but my experience with buying from the far east has not been positive. http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/CN/usb-flash-drive.html http://www.dhgate.com/product/256gb-256-gb-2pcs-lot-promotion-pendrive/172953009.html#s1-20-1|2503157602 WOW! Of course all this is 'personal'. "Corporate" is quite another matter! Such issues as the security of the backups becomes a concern, the need for duplicate & off-site copies, encryption and more. But corporate can also afford more technology to this purpose. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org