Backup Strategy

["jbk" <user=22@nabble.blu.org>]

 I have migrated from backup to tape to back up to external 
disc. It took one solid weekend to configure and a week of 
testing to feel comfortable to implement. I'm using BackupPC 
which leverages rsync, rsyncd, tar, and smb for a number of 
backup options. It is a Perl scripted application with a cgi 
interface that is easy to use once you understand the script 
file it writes to. I'm using rsync for the local BU and ssh 
rsync for a laptop and smb for the family desktop. 
I bought a Maxtor 60G usb device and reformatted to ext3 
from ntfs so that I would get correct size readings. 
So now I have automatic weekly fulls and daily incs of all 
machines working well. My strategy is to buy one more disk 
each week till I have 3 or four disks with data. Once each 
has one rotation of backups I think I will go to a monthly 
rotation since the data I backup changes very little over a 
one week time period. Strategies have risks, so given this 
is non commercial what are some other rotation strategies 
others use. 

Jim KR 

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