Re: Tape/DVD Backup Suggestions?
От | Egon Reetz |
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Тема | Re: Tape/DVD Backup Suggestions? |
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Msg-id | 3D366CD0.219F2931@usco.de обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Tape/DVD Backup Suggestions? (reina@nsi.edu (Tony Reina)) |
Список | pgsql-admin |
I used Exabyte tapes for severeal years, very reliable. Sometimes there were problems with media from different vendors. I usually used 2 tapes for parallel backup/recover sessions and for fault tolerance. I would backup to harddisks only in rare cases and I don't user CDs etc. for backups. Egon Tony Reina wrote: > Yes, I'm a little wary of hard disk based systems as my sole backup. I > prefer something that allows me to have at least 2-3 different media > backups (e.g. one this week, one last week, and one the week before last). > Also, I like to be able to take a copy of the media home just because I'm > paranoid that the lab will burn down or something silly like that ;>) > > I've been looking at the Exabyte systems which hold 80G/160G and write at > about 10G/hour. Anyone have experience with these? How onerous is it to > look at the table of contents or restore a specific file from these tapes? > > -Tony > > At 11:35 PM 7/17/02 +0100, strange@nsk.yi.org wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 04:48:10PM -0500, Nathan Mueller wrote: > > > > Are there > > > > systems like with these features that could handle say 20 Gigs per > > > > media? > > > > > > Where I work we just started using a new disk based backup system that > > > we wrote in-house. Disk is a little bit cheaper then tape -- plus much > > > faster. Another bonus is that your compression rate does not depend on > > > how fast your data is flowing. I'd suggest you buy a few 160GB IDE > > > drives and just dump your data there. It's faster, easier and you don't > > > need to change tapes. If you're interested in the source to our system > > > just let me know. > > > >I advise against hard disk based backups: > > > >It's not cheap, sure, a tape drive is expensive, but the tapes are quite > >cheap. > > > >The cheapness of the tapes allows you to use several for different > >backup strategies (weekly and daily incremental and monthly full backup, for > >example) and to keep older data on saved tapes. > > > >It's easier. There are programs like Arkeia (free for one linux server and > >two clients (win32/linux)), that makes tape and backup management a few > >clicks (but a read of documentation is still needed). As a side note, > >Arkeia supports direct dumping and backup from serveral rdbms, postgresql > >included. > > > >It's more reliable. If the backup disk fails, all backup is lost and its > >substitution an hassle. If a tape breaks you still have the other tapes > >for last week/day/etc.. Still, a tape drive can fail or a tape can screw > >the drive, but I haven't heard of anyone to whom that has happened. In > >hardware world, quality normally comes with an higher price. > > > >That being said, I don't have a tape. Too much for my pocket. :) > >So I made a script that creates, compress, splits and burns backups to > >cds. I'll made a switch to dvds when the price for dvd recorders drops to > >EUR 100 and dvd blank discs to EUR 2... > > > >Your solution is still a valid one, but more a special case for those > >without too much $$... > > > >Regards, > >Luciano Rocha > > > >-- > >Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org
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