Backup Ideas? (was Re: [geeks] Big Blue Smoke)

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Fri Apr 12 09:06:56 CDT 2002


On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:13:13PM -0500, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:

> This is something that's been niggling at my brain for sometime. My work
> machines have a nice proper backup plan in place - tested every so often
> - but at home I have my Sun Blade 100 with 55gb of disk, my Vaxstation
> 4000/90 with 5 gb of disk (and I hope soon to be 11 gb), and a Thinkpad
> 750 with a 1gb disk in it. None of them have _ever_ been backed up as
> there doesn't seem to be a sensible way to do this on a hobbyist budget.

My suggestion would be to get a cheap n' nasty PC, bung an 80Gb IDE disk
in there, and use the Mighty Gods cron and rsync.

Until then, I suggest backing up the Thinkpad and Vaxstation to the Blade.

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