if most of your data is audio and video then why do you need to do periodic backups--even if its only monthly? The majority of my data is DivX and mp3's. they never change so i burn then to CD once (i also have a dds3 drive too) and they are permanent archives. It may take sometime at first but your should never have to make another backup. Even with 4-8gig tape drives and a pile of tapes you only need to back them up once. Then the data that is "dynamic" and probably more valuable can be backed up or stored on a raid or mirror set--since i assume that is only a small percentage of your 300gig. Of course depending on what your data is your mileage may vary. For my data needs this works good enuf. For DivX i burn them to CD so i can watch them on my laptop or lend them to a friend. I kill two birds with one CD then. At 02:00 PM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote: >zipping the files doesn't do any good. They are mostly compressed audio and >video. > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Eric F Crist [mailto:ecrist at ardent-hacker.net] >> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:34 PM >> To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' >> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] backup >> >> >> 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 >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> tclug-list mailing list >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >