[lug] Off-site backup

[Jason Davis]

I have had very good luck with a combination of tapes and hard drives.
I like to keep a copy on disk so I don't have to wait on reading the
tape and extracting the data. I like to keep a copy on tape so we
can take it to our bank every night. We use Amanda as our tape
software.

Good Luck,
jd

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 18:16 -0700, Ben wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out the best way to set up an off-site data backup.
> Is there a standard media/method used for this?
> 
> We have ~20 gigs of data and maybe upwards of 500mb - 1gb that could
> change per week. Our internet connection is not very reliable, nor very
> fast, so I'm wary of a network backup to a remote server. We are looking
> for a weekly (full) backup where last week's and 2 weeks ago's data is
> stored off-site. The idea is make the backup require as little user
> intervention as possible. All the data is sitting in a directory on a
> linux server, so copying the data should be straight-forward.
> 
> We could do this with a tape backup system and 3 tapes. How reliable are
> tapes? The data is a little large for dvd's without it becoming cumbersome
> with all the different dvd's. Plus, burning a set of dvd usually takes a
> good amount of user-intervention. A set of external hard drives might
> work. I've heard about removable hard drives (as opposed to external?),
> but not sure how they differ from external drives. Anything I'm missing?
> 
> Any suggestions? Any comparison of the reliabilty of different methods
> would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben
> 
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