[mythtv-users] MythTV backup

[Mike Holden]

Steve Smith wrote:
> On a related note... HOW do you backup 500gb of data these days? Is a
> spare drive really the most cost effective method?

I have a Linksys NSLU2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 with plenty of
disk in a USB2 enclosure. It's cheap, low power, small, and can do other
stuff like dns, dhcp, ntp etc.

Your backup is then as simple as copying files over to another networked
box (or as complex as the backup scripts you want to write), and is
limited only by the size of the remote disk(s).

Depends a lot on the amount of data you need to back up, but burning files
to DVD seems like such a lot of effort when you can buy disks so cheaply
these days.

I never bothered with tape devices, since they used to be expensive, and
then disk became so cheap.
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