From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26949 invoked by alias); 7 Sep 2007 02:53:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 26935 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Sep 2007 02:53:26 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from c-76-21-111-239.hsd1.ca.comcast.net (HELO dzur.releasedominatrix.com) (76.21.111.239) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:53:17 +0000 Received: from releasedominatrix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dzur.releasedominatrix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48EA670DEEB9; Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:53:03 -0700 (PDT) To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Need to restore a file In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:14:54 BST. <46E0A60E.6070900@jifvik.org> Reply-To: angela@releasedominatrix.com Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:53:00 -0000 From: Angela Marie Thomas Message-Id: <20070907025304.48EA670DEEB9@dzur.releasedominatrix.com> Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q3/txt/msg00077.txt.bz2 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