[tech] the aftermath

[Adrian Chadd]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 11:43:03AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003, Paul Day wrote:
> > > Old PC with a couple of cheap 120GB IDE drives, somewhere _other_ than UCC
> > > (ie, elsewhere on campus or colo-ed somewhere on WAIX for free) doing an
> > > rsync at 4am each morning?
> > 
> > .. once the network upgrade happens. It'll suck otherwise.
> > What about a firewire caddy and a fat removeable hard disk?
> 
> Those are useful, but insufficient. They save us from "oh dear the
> hardware exploded", but they don't help for "someone fucked up the
> config/deleted something/rootkit'ed the machine but no-one noticed
> until a month later".

Err, thats an application layer thing, _not_ the physical media.
you can do incremental (dump, rsync, tar, etc) backup/restores
quite happily onto hard disk.


Adrian