Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:43:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:43:36 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:54031 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:43:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:40:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Davidsen To: Kai Henningsen cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: v2.6 vs v3.0 In-Reply-To: <8Xq2wCX1w-B@khms.westfalen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1196 Lines: 27 On 30 Sep 2002, Kai Henningsen wrote: > One idea we've come up (and surely we're not the only ones) is to use > cheap IDE disks for backup, possibly in a cold-swappable insert. As long > as you can keep several backups per disk (say using some of those 100GB > disks), preferrably even on a different machine, that's fairly cheap. > > If you want to keep daily backups for a week, weekly for a year, and all > on separate media, of course, that's *not* cheap with this method, and > even DLT or similar prices become acceptable in comparision. But it > certainly beats *no* backup! I do that, but it doesn't make for a storage medium I can easily use on another system. The cost of DVD writers is coming down, and non-magnetic media may have some advantages as well. Still, thay're small compared to disk sizes. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/