On Thursday 16 February 2017 05:08:34 Francesco Porro wrote: > On 16/02/2017 01:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Very simple: amanda > > Well, Amanda looks a bit too complex for my typical home needs, and > seems to me more server,centralized-backup oriented. However it seems > also very powerful and flexible, so I'll keep it into account for the > future. Thanks! > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Cheers!
Well, I am used to it. And I've been using it here, first with 1 machine and tapes, but that got outgrown as the machines were added, and many years ago I discovered 2 things (I've used it since 1998) 1. Common hard drives are 5000x more dependable than tapes. 2. Common hard drives are 1/10 to 1/100th the cost of tapes & tape drives. I am not a business, needing long term storage, so an $80 terabyte drive, formatted for 30 virtual tapes, used one a night, is as long as I need to retain data. So now I am backing up 5 machines, mostly the stuff associated with the machining arts, two lathes and two milling machines, and this machine to that terabyte drive. That drive now has 65000+ spinning hours on it, but smartctl tools have alerted me in time to go get a replacement so no data has been lost in better than a decade. And because the hard drives are random access, if I accidentally nuke a file I need, recovery is a few minutes operation, more time is wasted as I go thru the monkey business of looking up how to do the recovery, the actual recovery once its setup, is a 5 minute job. What can I say, its "comfortable" to me. But its a far cry from the only way. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
