Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
>
>> IMHO, if you still use tapes, forget the past and move to the future
>> of disk-based backups, and adopt Backuppc as your tool.
>
> There are trade-offs here. Tapes are generally regarded as having a
> longer shelf life than disks, and they're less susceptible to physical
> damage during transport -- both important if off-site backups are part
> of your strategy.
On the other hand, given bandwidth suitable for keeping up with changes
via rsync, backuppc is perfectly capable of maintaining offsite backups
over a vpn without transporting anything. And for life span you can use
raid mirrors and replace a drive every couple of years. Also, backuppc
can generate a tar imaage that you can write to other media for archival
storage and the ability to restore without the application running - it
isn't particularly handy but it is possible.
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Les Mikesell
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