Re: Software RAID ? Was: [Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas]

1998-09-23 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/22/98 at 12:51 PM, Guido Bozzetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote: >> >> Why not isolate the data you want to backup in you file system so you >> can setup raid on the second spindle. As an example: >> /usr under Debian is

Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-22 Thread Joey Hess
JonesMB wrote: > I recently had a hard drive die on me causing me to lose lots of data. I > have rebuilt my system (a K6/233 with Debian on 1GB and Win95 on 1GB) and I'm > looking at various ways of backing up my data so I don't lose it all again. > I currently have about 2 GB of drive space t

Software RAID ? Was: [Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas]

1998-09-22 Thread Guido Bozzetto
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote: > > Why not isolate the data you want to backup in you file system so you > can setup raid on the second spindle. As an example: > /usr under Debian is fairly static, so don't include it in any raid > solution. /home on the other hand has lots of stu

Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-22 Thread King Lee
Hello, I use two IDE drives, and nightly (with cron) copy selected files from the drive that contains my data two the other. I have a script that that uses find and cpio. The important line is something like cd $dir; find . ! -name "*.o" ! -name "*.exe" ... | cpio -pdv $backup I wont know

Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-22 Thread stick
Ralph Winslow said > When JonesMB wrote, I replied: > > I assume that your 2Gb. is on a different spindle, 'cause if it isn't, > it won't do you a hell of a lot of good in the event of a disk failure. > > I've enclosed the perl that I use to backup some essentials that I'd > need to re-build from

RE: backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-21 Thread David Karlin
TECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JonesMB > Sent: Monday, September 21, 1998 3:16 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: backup using hard disk - any ideas > > > > Hello, > > I recently had a hard drive die on me causing me to lose lots of data. I &

Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-21 Thread Ralph Winslow
When JonesMB wrote, I replied: I assume that your 2Gb. is on a different spindle, 'cause if it isn't, it won't do you a hell of a lot of good in the event of a disk failure. I've enclosed the perl that I use to backup some essentials that I'd need to re-build from a Debian CD. I save only essent

backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-21 Thread JonesMB
Hello, I recently had a hard drive die on me causing me to lose lots of data. I have rebuilt my system (a K6/233 with Debian on 1GB and Win95 on 1GB) and I'm looking at various ways of backing up my data so I don't lose it all again. I currently have about 2 GB of drive space that I am not us