On Aug 17, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 03:40:41 -0500, Emil Payne wrote: > >> I have a 1 TB external USB drive with 362 GB used. I'd like to do a full >> backup to DVDs and then an incremental (or something) backup every month >> or two, also to DVDs or CDs. I'd like the backups to be compressed in >> order to save space (i.e. - the number of DVDs/CDs used). > > Optical media storage is a PITA for big amounts of data (it's very slow > and hard to manage when you intend to do rewrite operations).
I really hate to be the old fogey here, but if you've got the $$, tape sure does a good job. Use Amanda for both incrementals and fulls, and to reduce PITA, get cron to run them overnight. Or over the weekend, if you want to backup a lot of data, but infrequently. Optical disks and hard disks don't last. I have audio tapes from the 1950s that are still good. Tape has its disadvantages, but longevity isn't one of them... For backup, though, I'd suggest springing a little more media and telling Amanda to write uncompressed tarballs -- for reliability and ease of recovery from a major disaster. You can recover from an Amanda backup tape with nothing more than plain old tar. A major PITA, but it's possible. -- Glenn English -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/c0eaa8af-a77f-4e92-b70b-530bf5223...@slsware.com
