Robert Brockway wrote:

When building a backup solution, resources allowing, I will setup a staging area on disk somewhere to hold backups. From the staging area the backups can go off site by the chosen means.

Bandwidth allowing, it can be useful to have your backup-staging machine at the far end of a fat connection, so that once you've done your physical backups from it they're already offsite with regard to the live servers, and you don't have to cart them halfway across $DEITY's green earth. Some organizations with more than one site, and fibre between, have each back up the other, for example. Rsync can be your friend, in this regard, allowing you to keep a mirror of your data at minimal bandwidth cost. -- Anthony de Boer -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml