Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 16 November 2008 14:36:22 William Kenworthy wrote:
> I wouldnt call it fair trade, rather "its working now and we'll make it
> better it eventually."
>
> I agree, backups should be just that - protection from mistakes/lost
> data.  However this is from someone who has the archives mounted via nfs
> and can browse via filemanager an retrieve files that way via a desktop.
> Currently I have my freeruner mobile phone, mythtv critical files and a
> number of systems such as laptops backed up this way and its been very
> reliable and useful, both as automatic/unattended and manually run.

OK I see where you are coming from.

When you say backup/restore to me, I think in terms of what I'm used to - 
massive tape archives holding many multi-TB of data for thousands of hosts. 
What you are describing is indeed a backup, but in my world I'd probably call 
it something else.

Perhaps I should have been more explicit and said "Disaster Recovery Archival 
Backup" instead of "backup"... :-)

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