Re: HD Backup

[Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com>]

On 12/29/05, Ray Holtz <ray@rayholtz.com> wrote:
> Well Hello SILUGers!  Long time no write.  I'm doing well up here in
> Chicagoland, but I miss the monthly meetings.  I don't do nearly enough
> Linux work up here like I want to, my office is 95% M$.
>
> Anywho, I've got a client on the side up here who wants to backup the
> Linux (Fedora 4) file server I setup for him.  I'm thinking of doing an
> external hard drive backup and just writing a script to copy all the file
> shares to the external HD so he can move that off-site very easily.  What
> I'm looking for here is recommendations of external HD that are good
> brands, breath easily (so it doesn't overheat), is USB2, and not too hefty
> of a price tag hopefully.

Hi Ray:

 I use a Seagate 80 GB 7200 rpm USB 2 hard drive (model ST380801U2-RK)
and a Seagate 40 GB 5400 rpm drive (model no. ST940801U2-RK). I am
able to mount these from both FreeBSD and OpenBSD.  I have OpenBSD 3.8
installed on one HDD and NetBSD 3.0 installed on the other. These
external hardrives work fine.









 Currently he has less than 20GB that need to be
> backed up, so even a 'small' 100GB drive would give him a about 5 weeks of
> backups per drive. I'm thinking of setting him up with 3 drives, so a
> backup Mon, Wed, and Fri nights.
>
> Also if anyone has any creative ways of writing such a script to copy the
> files, I'd love to hear about that too!  Something simple like Bash
> Scripting that I can follow, and edit when necessary. I'm thinking of
> something where it checks for backups that are older than 4 or 5 weeks,
> deletes those to open up space, then copies the files and folders it
> needs.   I'm not asking for anyone to do my work for me, but to point me
> in the right direction or maybe any resources I can check online to create
> this.
>
> Also also, what are anyone's thoughts on formatting the drives with FAT32
> so that if need be, the drive and its files can be read by a Windows
> computer?
>
> Thanks for the advice everyone,
> Ray
> Formerly from Carbondale
>
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Kind regards,
Jonathan

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