On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:25:58 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > 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.
(...) I see two key problems for that suggestion: 1/ In addition to the cost, tapes are not aimed to plain users. 2/ Using Amanda for a single machine is like using a hammer to crack a nut. A backup solution has to be easier and accessible enough for users to use it flawlessly, otherwise backup copies won't be never done ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/k0ola2$ct$6...@ger.gmane.org
