On Tuesday 24 January 2006 10:03, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 08:44, Graeme Humphries wrote:
>> >Ian Turner wrote:
>> >>The good news is that we are working on native optical media
>> >> support. No promises about a release date, but it will be
>> >> available at some point.
>> >
>> >I am *so* happy to hear that. I need a real backup solution for my
>> > home server, but I can't personally afford a nice tape changer. ;)
>> >
>> >Graeme
>>
>> Neither can I, Graeme.  So, since big hard drives are almost
>> commodity items now, I'd get one big (200GB?) enough, install it on
>> the 2nd cable
>
>                     ^^^
>Make it at least two, and never connect both of them to your system at
> the same time.
>
Thats fine if they are removables, Geert, like in a usb or firewire 
enclosure, but that also doubles the cost per gigabyte.  This one is a 
bare commodity 200GB WD, PATA drive.  I thought of only mounting it 
while amanda was running, but then there is the ever present fsck every 
so many mounts and I don't want to babysit it.  So its mounted at boot 
time.  It also gets a wee bit of exersize in normal ops as swap 
and /var are on it.  If it weren't for that, I might even consider 
unmounting it and issueing a powerdown.  But since most electronic 
failures are powerup failures, I doubt that would make it any more 
dependable in the long view.

>Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>      Geert
>
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>
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