[plug] backing up Linux to Windows

[Chris Caston]

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 20:18, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Chris Caston wrote:
> >>We used to use 3 120GB hard disks as a rotating (HA! Geddit?) backup set.
> >>We picked up a cheap camera hard case, filled the inside with reasonably HD foam with cutouts for 
> >>two disks and used that to transport them offsite. 
> > 
> > 
> > This is a very good idea. I often provide a combination of ext HDs and
> > dvdrw to customers for inexpensive backup.
> > 
> > The one problem I sometimes come across though is a good file being
> > overwritten by a corrupt file when there is a hardware issue that causes
> > strange things to happen.
> > 
> 
> Our backups were verified by a read-after-write and any odd results E-mailed.

Did you write the script yourself or use something third party?

>  No issues were 
> encountered over a 2 year period that were not deliberately caused by me injecting faults.
> 
> Brad