> Glenn Korbey wrote:
>> to need to back up 200GB+ of data...for some reason my brain must have
>> frozen as an external HD never even crossed my mind :o
>
> I recently took maplin up on the last 500GB USB hard drive 'offer'.
> I *know* I could have gotten similar of the net cheaper but this
> fitted the bill for me and was 'relatively cheap at ~60UKP and
> I could drive down to the shops and have it up and running in
> less than an hour.
>
> Note you have to disable the sleep timer for linux but other than
> that it works AOK.
>
> I also agree with Damian - just one technology is not the best solution.
>
> For work, we have a fireprooof tape safe and I (will soon) host an
> (off site) backup server. Long term plan is colo boxes and
> purchasing a commercial backup service *and* keeping remote
> (tape/disk?) backups.
>
Perhaps I'll be able to help with DIAP (R) sooner rather than later? I am
working hard to improve my (can get by) Perl and want to plan/design
alpha-dev rather than simply convert the pre-alpha-final prototype from
Bash to Perl.
--
Damian L Brasher
http://www.diap.org.uk
