Re: Backup Solution

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Craig Van Tassle wrote:
> The way I'm currently doing backups is I backup to a disk partition on
> my Raid Array, but I want somewhere to put the full backups that I take
> every month. I dont want to really on my Raid array for backups as I
> use it for several other things as well, including my movie store.

Tape is nice that you can store data rather cheaply and keep dozens of 
versions around.  Conversely it is cumbersome to keep track of where you 
have data stashed, and a very manual process.

If you are dead-set on keeping tape, then just run tar/cpio to it. 
Otherwise you need to run backup software in front of it (amanda, for 
instance).  Then your service quickly spirals into a lot of work.

I highly recommend Crashplan, especially with how small your data sizes 
are.  Crashplan automates backups, de-duplicates your data set, keeps the 
last X versions of a file, runs when you want, throttles bandwidth, and 
encrypts data before leaving the system.  You can use another client as a 
data target as well.

Chris Stamborski

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