Doug Winterburn wrote:
On 04/19/2012 06:27 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Doug Winterburn wrote:
On 04/19/2012 08:08 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:


Thank you! A good backup strategy will never come close to a
terabyte for a good sized corporation, let alone any PC home
applications.

Ackshooly, when you start saving all your hi def pics and videos of
grandkids, the gigabytes just roll by, then when you start
downloading movies, well...

I stuck a couple of 2TB drives in my linux print/scan/file/backup
server using software RAID1.

Yesbut, you don't need to repeatedly backup all of that data. A
good backup strategy only backs up changed data. Though, as I said
in a previous reply, at the price of storage, it's probably moot.



That's why I mentioned "incremental". The backuppc server app keeps
one full every week and incrementals every day until the next week,
so at most you have two fulls and six incrementals depending on the
day in the cycle. And I also mentioned compression which in my case
seems to reduce the load to between 1/2 and 1/3 of real size. Of
course, you can configure whatever schedule you'd like and whatever
compression ratio you can afford the time for.

Sorry - misunderstood what you were saying. Somehow, when I saw this (
It's all compressed/incremental/etc. ), my mind interpreted that to be a
directory structure. Go figure...

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-Mike-