Hello Stephane > Another random question for debian users on laptop.
i'm not really sure if your question really belongs to debian- laptop - but anyway, my solution also works with laptops :-) > So here I am now, browsing for backup solutions, from Zip drives to DVD > burners or CD burners. have you already thought about external harddisks (usb 2.0 or firewire - doesn't matter and depends on what you prefer). > - the disk is rather small (< 10 GB) but I want to be able to do > incremental and full backups if you buy an external disk with let's say 250gb of space, you will be able to keep 25 versions of your backup - enough for a version of each month of a year as well as a version for the last 4 weeks and the last 7 days (or whatever your strategy is). i'm doing my backup that way and i'm really happy about it (this means: i didn't have any problems with it). there are many ways for backing up your data to the disk - i do it using a specialised shellscript which uses rsync. if you like you can have a look at it on http://www.impressionet.ch/gurkeback/ > - the media is not important. Tapes would be good I guess ? (they're cheap > and 'scratch resistant' as opposed to CDs) i don't know about where you live - but here in switzerland, good tapedrives are quite expensive. also, tapes can fail due to moist, rough and long- time usage or dust. also you're not that flexible if you need more space later (you can just buy a larger disk if you need more space). also, tapes tend to be slow i think (except of course for really expensive material) > - Some software should support it (I am running woody). firewire disks are no problem at all and mountable as is a normal harddisk. i don't know how well usb 2.0 disks work - i prefer firewire. > - USB would be great, speed is not important. speed is quite good with firewire/usb 2.0 > - CHEAP !!!!! I can't spend $1000 bucks for the overall system. here in switzerland you'll get a firewire-hd-case with included power supply + a 250 gb hd for around 230-240 us-$. if you're paranoid you can even buy a second one :-) kind regards, Pascal Mainini -- Pascal Mainini ------- open-minded computer artist encrypted mail preferred ----- http://www.impressionet.ch/crypto/ more? -> www.impressionet.ch --- artist? -> www.guerk.li jabber? - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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