Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backup incrementals to optical media?

[Brandon Saxe]

Got it.


Thanks, guys!

:)

--- Chris Wilson <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Brandon,
> 
> > the rdiff-backup represents not only a current
> 'mirror' (I backup daily) 
> > of my data, but also true 'backups' through the
> incremental storage 
> > facility.
> >
> > The problem is this: If I lose my USB hard drive,
> then I lose all my 
> > backups. Now, I know that a real backup scheme
> requires one to have two 
> > copies of the backups, but that kind of defeats
> the purpose of using an 
> > efficient tool like rdiff-backup. I don't want to
> copy all the data to a 
> > second drive and I don't want to run RAID1 mirror
> either.
> 
> Rsync the entire mirror copy to another disk, or
> another location across 
> the network.
> 
> > Would it make sense to make a backup copy to
> optical or tape media of 
> > all the data in the rdiff-backup-data directories?
> Would I be able to 
> > use these increments if the USB drive failed?
> Would these files still be 
> > able to be used if files needed to be recovered?
> 
> rdiff-backup-data contains only patches, they are
> useless without the 
> latest matching version of the full file, which is
> in the mirror. So back 
> up the entire mirror.
> 
> Cheers, Chris.
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