Re: Need to restore a file

[Angela Marie Thomas <angela@releasedominatrix.com>]

jifl@jifvik.org wrote:

> [snip]
> 
> I don't know what the status or use of the other two smaller servers are, 
> but if there is sufficient disk space, I could put together an amanda 
> backup (on disk) of critical areas to give us incrementals over a period. 
> This would be as well as, not instead of, Angela's disaster recovery 
> backups as these servers are obviously on the same site.
> 
> What's the disk space situation on them? Is it worth doing?
> 
> If it was set up, it would mean hammering the disks to take the backup of 
> course, but at least network bandwidth won't be an issue :).

The two little boxes never had enough disk space to back up everything
which was annoying.

I upgraded my system at home to mirrored 500G for backups and will
be moving all the backups to a colo (I got a deal for $40/U and a 10M
connection) this month.  Given the cheapness of disk, I may be able to
put together a bigger 1T-2T system and do rdiff backup type backups
of everything.  The colo will give better restore speeds as well so
it won't be quite so much of a disaster plan as it is now at my house.

--Angela