[Dirvish] Offsite Disks

[Steve Ramage]

I've actually been backing up all my data currently to my Linux box, 
that has one hard drive with all my images. I've been giving some 
thought to complimenting this with offsite disks but I'm debating on the 
exact procedure on how to do this. After a few years of running dirvish 
I seem to have capped out at around 32G of data being backed up. My 
current thought is to obtain two removable USB disks, and keep one 
hooked up to the machine. Then everyday after dirvish is done running 
doing an rsync of the vault with the external USB disk to sync them up 
(I'm hoping this would preserve the hardlinking structure). I could then 
switch these disks out around once a month. I'm not particularly 
concerned with loosing data newer than a month, since I'm really only on 
my notebook now, and that's almost always with me. I also don't feel 
like heading to the safety deposit box every day to do it more often.

Thoughts?


Steve Ramage