Re: Backup media; comments would be appreciated.

From: Chuck Bridgeland (gn32900_at_news-central.giganews.com)
Date: 12/26/03 

Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 19:02:39 -0600

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 11:05:25 -0500, Gaetan Martineau <gmartiPASDESPAM@mediom.qc.ca> wrote:

> I am thinking about a USB ZIP IOMEGA 750 Mbytes external drive as a
> device for backing up data for a small home network (backing up Windows
> as well as Linux partitions). Thanks for comments about the following
> ideas of mine:

How much do you have to back up?

> - was thinking about a Seagate travan Tape. BUT: Seems expensive and I
> have never see one installed or functionning. It seems a bit of a risky
> investment. (?)

Your basic tape drive. They should not be a problem, but probably won't
last long past the end of the warranty, in my experience.

> - CD-Rom seems a bit lousy for backing up data. (?)

Not really. Look into the cdbackup package. It allows you to pipe the
output of a traditional backup utility like tar directly to CDR. It works,
and media is _way_ cheaper than Zip disks.

I currently backup a bit over a gb, to 2 CDR disks, once per week, using tar
and cdbackup. I have not had any problem restoring data. 

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