Build another box with 4+ 80 giggers in it and copy your data to it. A more expensive alternative might be one of the network storage devices I am now seeing in some of the Linux magazines. > -----Original Message----- > From: dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu [SMTP:dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu] > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:36 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] backup > > This is a big problem that people everywhere are running into. The only > thing I can suggest is figure out what the _most_ important data you have > is and keep that backed up. If everything is extremely important to you, > then, for 300GB, expect to spend a year's salary to back it all up :) > > A reasonable DLT drive is at least $3000 and for media with compression up > to 80GB per tape is roughly $100 per tape. You do the math :) There's > really no other solution. Anything other than tape is just too slow to > back up that much data in a day. Even running through 4 80GB DLTs is > going > to take a _long_ time (most of the night). > > If you really care about your data that much, you won't just back it up to > a RAID. > > Gabe > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 01:19:58PM -0600, 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 > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > Gabe Turner | X-President, > UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing > Machinery > U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta > Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu > > "Get out of my trash! I'm telling you for the last time! A man works > hard for his filth, just to have vagrants steal it. > It's a cryin' shame." > - George Liquor in "The Boy Who Cried Rat!" > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------