Re: Advice on external backup of a Linux server.

From: Les Mikesell (les_at_futuresource.com)
Date: 02/10/05

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:57:31 -0600

    On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 22:11, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
    > >
    > Having considered your mindset, and knowing my client, I can
    > confidentetly say that although they would like to SAY that they want a
    > backup for a true dissaster, if I provide them with a quote for that
    > service they will quickly change their mind. Your suggestion of in
    > chasis drive backup, and not RAID seems very interesting, and I see your
    > point where simple mirroring prooves useless for typical problems.

    Simple mirroring can be valuable for the not-uncommon case of drive
    failure and will avoid having any downtime or data loss as a result
    (if you have hot-swap drives - otherwise you can take the system down
    at a convenient time for the replacement).

    However operator error and software bugs that delete/corrupt data
    are much more likely and deserve keeping an on-line nightly snapshot
    history available with a system like backuppc. There are people running
    backuppc from remote locations without too many problems. If your
    client already has another location with reasonable bandwidth or at
    least a decent internet connection it might not cost that much to
    set up. 

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  Les Mikesell
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