On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Duncan Shannon wrote: > 1. copy some files nightly to a central server (that is out of the > datacenter, but in the same building :) ) and burn them to cd every now > and then. Its about 70 gigs of data right now. I like the approach of copy everything to one machine, and then run nightly tape backups of that machines. Gotcha's with this strategy: - If anything on that box dies, you don't have backups anymore - If a rsync process fails for whatever reason, the data from that box doesn't get backed up - Some more I can't think of right now. :) For "best of both worlds", you could put a tape drive in each box for backups, and also have a central server that replicates the data and writes it to a larger tape drive. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list