Backups Re: [OT] my hard drive was murdered!

[janne]

sön 2004-10-24 klockan 22:07 -0400 skrev volvoguy:

> Since we're already having an off-topic conversation already, I would
> also be interested in what other people do to protect (ie. backup)
> large amounts of data like this - either with Ubuntu or Windows. Even
> backing up to DVD means a LOT of blank media for that much data. Do
> people still use tape? RAID? Backup duplicate hard drives that stay
> disconnected most of the time? That's the main reason I haven't done
> any backups lately - I just don't know HOW to back up that much data.

I take the lazy way out - I have a Firewire (and USB2) external 120Gb
drive that I do an rsync of my home dir to every week or so (I
explicitly exclude a download/temporary directory I use for stuff like
ISO images and so on). Since the drive is much larger than needed just
for backup, I also use it to store media (some movies, lots of mp3:s and
ogg:s) that I don't normally need, but that I don't want to trash
either.

My rsync command (in a shellscript):

rsync -Cavz --delete --exclude-from=.rsynclist
--progress /home/janne /mnt/ext/

And the .rsynclist file lists the places and files it should not backup
(my temp dir, ~/bin, ~/.thumbnails and any directory named Cache).



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