zipping the files doesn't do any good. They are mostly compressed audio and video. > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric F Crist [mailto:ecrist at ardent-hacker.net] > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:34 PM > To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] backup > > > Ever hear of tar? If you tar/gzip all those files, you're > size of backup > greatly decreses. Other than that, you're either going to > have to have a > dedicated hard drive just for those tar files, or you're > going to have to > bite the bullet (sp?) and spend too much money on a backup source. > > Eric > > > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Austad, Jay wrote: > > > Ok, with all the talk of buying huge hard drives and > setting up huge file > > servers, does anyone have any suggestions for backing them > up? Between me > > and my roomie, we have over 300GB of drives with data that > we'd rather not > > lose. Tape drives are expensive, and the cheap ones only > hold like 4 or 8GB > > worth of data per tape. Even if I did find a cheap AIT > drive, the tapes are > > still about $100 each. > > > > What is the best solution for this? When I only had 20GB > worth of data, > > burning it to 30 CD's wasn't too much of pain in the ass to > do once a month > > or so, but now it's a monumental task. I know we could buy > a couple extra > > drives and set up some of the volumes using RAID-5, but > that doesn't protect > > us against file system corruption, it only protects against > a drive failure. > > So, we really do need some sort of backup scheme, but > everything I find > > seems to get very expensive in one way or another. > > > > Jay > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >