Then you're pretty much stuck. You could spend a lot (more than I want to figure out) on a tape solution, or you could spend a lot (about $1200 for that much data using 9.4 gig disks, plus a drive) on some sort of dvd-r solution each time you do a backup, our you could make another machine (for about $2000) with a really big raid 5 (400 gigs - 6 maxtor 80 gig drives and an Escalade 6800) which really only gives you an extra layer of redundancy, a power problem (you do have a UPS? - not that a UPS will solve all power problems - yet another expense) could fry all of your systems, loosing all of your data. No matter how you look at it, you'd have to spend a lot to back up that much data. Any word on new techlogies that would make backing up really large amounts of data fast and cheap? New types of optical storage maybe? Jeff On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Austad, Jay wrote: > zipping the files doesn't do any good. They are mostly compressed audio and > video. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Eric F Crist [mailto:ecrist at ardent-hacker.net] > > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:34 PM > > To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' > > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] backup > > > > > > Ever hear of tar? If you tar/gzip all those files, you're > > size of backup > > greatly decreses. Other than that, you're either going to > > have to have a > > dedicated hard drive just for those tar files, or you're > > going to have to > > bite the bullet (sp?) and spend too much money on a backup source. > > > > Eric > > > > > > > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Austad, Jay wrote: > > > > > Ok, with all the talk of buying huge hard drives and > > setting up huge file > > > servers, does anyone have any suggestions for backing them > > up? Between me > > > and my roomie, we have over 300GB of drives with data that > > we'd rather not > > > lose. Tape drives are expensive, and the cheap ones only > > hold like 4 or 8GB > > > worth of data per tape. Even if I did find a cheap AIT > > drive, the tapes are > > > still about $100 each. > > > > > > What is the best solution for this? When I only had 20GB > > worth of data, > > > burning it to 30 CD's wasn't too much of pain in the ass to > > do once a month > > > or so, but now it's a monumental task. I know we could buy > > a couple extra > > > drives and set up some of the volumes using RAID-5, but > > that doesn't protect > > > us against file system corruption, it only protects against > > a drive failure. > > > So, we really do need some sort of backup scheme, but > > everything I find > > > seems to get very expensive in one way or another. > > > > > > Jay > > > _______________________________________________ > > > tclug-list mailing list > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >