[NTLUG:Discuss] Disk recovery

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 12:21, Lance Simmons wrote:
> * Lance Simmons <lance at lsimmons.net> [040622 22:17]:
> > 
> > Can anyone recommend a local hard drive recovery service?  Cheaper is
> > better.  The filesystem is ext3.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who answered.  As it turns out, I was able to recover
> the data from another disk, so I'm off the hook.  But I'll definitely
> keep in mind the replacement controller card idea for the future--No,
> wait, I'm going to really do a good job backing things up!!!

rsync is really easy to use for simple backups. Just as long 
as you have some other system with free drive space and you don't 
want to get 'last-weeks-file' or 'last-months-file'. 

I rsync my mail spool and web directory to a remote, off site 
system on a daily basis. rsync does a good job at only 
sending the changed bytes.... i.e. you have a 1gig log and 
write to the end of it... rsycn will send the changes only
( for the most part ) and not need to send the whole 1gig 
log. 

put rsycn in a coupld of cron jobs and your backups are set. 

jack