Chris Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca> writes: > > You're probably better off taking a "small" hd, around 6-10GB, and > > make nightly incremental, weekly and monthly full backups on that > > special purpose hd. The hd should be mounted ro to prevent accidential > > deletion and the like. > > One advantage of removable media is that if something happens to your > box (e.g. it gets stolen, goes up in flames, etc.) you don't lose your > backups. Of course, but I think I mentioned to make those "removable backups" as he likes (manually, probably via a simple script) to avoid the trouble he might run into if he misses to replace that removable media. -- Tschoe, Get my gpg-public-key here Jens http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt
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