Darren Casey (Personal) darren@darrencasey.co.uk wrote:
I would also recommend using Norton ghost to ensure you have an image
handy
on cd should the hard disk fail so you can have it backup asap and use something such as rsync to ensure you have an hourly or at worst daily backup of key files.
Anyone like to comment on that compared to LVM, RAID or other normal backup methods? rsync is going to cost on data transfer if used for much, surely?
We use it for all our servers onto the local network so there is no data transfer costs, the other option is to put 2 Nic's in or the dual Inet Nic's
There are other ways but this one works very well. We currently rsync onto another server, this in turn compress's the data and archives it.
That way there is very little load on the main servers, and with rsync only copying changes there data transfer is very low
Regards Darren