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Re: [SLUG] hard drive failure, back-up, and other unhappiness


On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Alex Samad <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Its a case of horse for courses.  My setup. I have 3 server, 2 at my
>  place. 1 primary file server, files copied over to the second server.
>  The second server copies its files over to the third server which is
>  offsite. All disk space is raid1 (or better - used to use raid5)

While discussing backup (and off-site backup) strategies, here is
something that sounds like just what I'd like to suggest my workplace
to use to keep the comapny's jewels at an even safer place:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg51032.html

(Summary - use a simple script to store encypted incremental daily
backups on Amazon's S3).

--Amos