[ale] Backups (What are you using?)

[Geoffrey]

Sean C. McCord wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:37:57PM -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> 2009/1/26 Ken Ratliff <forsaken at targaryen.us>:
>>> depends on what's in your environment. Since 99% of all of our boxes are one
>>> unix variant or another, rsync suits our needs perfectly.
>> rsync to tape???
> 
> Yech... who wants tape???  Awful medium, that:  slow, unreliable,
> serial, expensive, etc.
> 
> Backup server w/ rsync differential snapshots is the idea.

must make off site data storage kinda tough. ;)  Unless your backup 
server is off site.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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