Re: Re: Looking for USB pen-drive -> CD based backup system

[On 14 Sep, @23:33, Steinar wrote in "[hdup-user] Re: Looking for US ..."]
> > ofcourse can hdup do this :-) But more serieus. If you can get 1
> > month of backups on 512 MB, you're done. If not: you must run hdup
> > more often, i.e once a week a full dump (called monthly in hdup
> > speak). And then write week-cd's (containing the monthly + weekly +
> > 7 daily's) each week.
> 
> > But again: if a month worth of backups (1 monthly, 4 weekly and uhm...
> > a lot of daily's) fit in 512 MB there is no problem at all.
> 
> Ok.  Thanx for the info.
> 
> Do I need to do a full backup once a month, or can I use the one
> monthly backup, all the way, until the pen drive is full?

you do a monthly backup on the pen, and then pad it with weekly's (every
week) and daily's every day. If the thing is full and you can burn a CD
of it. 

You can always get your stuff back if there is a monthly (duh..) and then you
can get more recent versions of your files if you have more recent weekly's
and daily's.

grtz Miek