Ever hear of tar? If you tar/gzip all those files, you're size of backup greatly decreses. Other than that, you're either going to have to have a dedicated hard drive just for those tar files, or you're going to have to bite the bullet (sp?) and spend too much money on a backup source. Eric On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, 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 >