[ILUG] 100GB+ backups for the home user

[Paul Jakma]

Nightly LVM snaphots only go so far, and given i only recently had to 
touch wood, cross fingers and sacrifice a few cats[1] to the god of 
data integrity before doing a mkraid --really-dangerous-no-resync[2], 
I was wondering if anyone had anyone suggestions for 100GB+ backup 
solutions affordable to the home user.

A really neat solution would be mutual remote backups. I've plenty of 
space and'd be happy to give a few 10GBs of space via rsync or NFS or 
NBD over IPSec to anyone. But bandwidth would be a problem[3], having 
only about 16KB/s outbound, it would work for the other person though 
- 50KB/s for a few hours is enough for half a gig a night.

I'm thinking that just buying another disk is only way. Anyone know 
better?

--paulj

1. Sorry CJB, Liam, Kevin and all the other cat lovers, but had to be 
done.

2. Because I'd stupidly added a kicked disk back into MD without 
hotremoving it first, be nice if MD was more tolerant of dumb users 
like me.

3. *Grumble* Eircom *grumble*

regards,
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