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Re: [cobalt-users] ARKEIA Back up software
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] ARKEIA Back up software
- From: "Chih-Lung Lin" <cxl247@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Apr 24 01:57:38 2001
- Organization: Penn State University
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> >My recommendation on tape drives: don't buy them. Spend $250 for an 80GB
drive
> >and use rsync to make backups to that. If you're going to spend more
money,
> >$1200 will get you a RAID-5 array of three 80GB drives, for 160GB
> >usable capacity.
> >
> >Faster, more reliable, instant-restore, random-access, mirroring
> >capability rather than backup if you want it, remote mounting, and
> >so on.
>
> ...but a real bummer when your building burns down/gets
> robbed/floods/whatever and you don't have offsite backups.... ;)
I guess I am conviced not to use tape drive for backups. I am going to use
the harddrive. But I have no idea what rsync backup is. Could you explain
to me in more detail? Can it do auto-backup? What hardware and software do
I need? How do I set it up? Please help. Thanks.
Chih-Lung