[FX.php List] [Off] Not a valid path - for scheduled backups

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

My understanding is that some macs have internal FireWire ports,
and those should be used!!!

ggt667

On Nov 21, 2007 3:34 AM, Joel Shapiro <jsfmp at earthlink.net> wrote:
> My understanding is the same as Bob's -- that backing up to an
> external drive is "risky" because if the drive gets disconnected no
> backups get made.  Perhaps with the new alerts in FMS9 this is not
> *as big* an issue as pre-9, but I believe it's still FMI's
> recommendation to backup locally.
>
> There's a good article by Wim Decorte about using shell scripts to
> make remote zips of locally backed up files.  It includes a VBscript
> for Windows and a link (at the end) to a shell script for OS X.  I
> use the mac shell script in my development as well as at a couple
> clients' and it works great.
>
> http://www.connectingdata.com/MoreBackups_v2.pdf
>
> -Joel
>
>
>
> On Nov 20, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
>
> > Here in my company, we backup this way:
> >
> > a) hourly to the internal drive
> > b) 5-10 minutes later, a shell script copies and archives that
> > backup to a 2nd internal drive
> > c) at the same time, the script also shoots this ZIP file over to
> > another machine in the network
> >
> > In addition, we have a 2nd backup scheme that happens nightly; it
> > does the same 3 steps. We then take those daily ZIP files from the
> > network machine and write them to DVD-Rs. So at any given moment,
> > we have hourly backups on 2 hard drives, plus dailies on 3
> > different hard drives, one of which is on a physically separate
> > machine.
> >
> > We get around this limitation that way, so it's not a huge issue
> > for us. I was really put out though when I discovered that I
> > couldn't use an external drive with FMSA 8.
> >
> > Bob Patin
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> > On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
> >
> >> I don't know; I'm just repeating what I heard at Devcon.
> >>
> >> If I remember correctly, their argument was that an external drive
> >> could be detached by accident. I'm not saying I agree with this (I
> >> certainly don't), but that's what I seem to recall.
> >>
> >> I do a lot of digital recording, as does almost every recording
> >> studio here in Nashville, and we all use external drives for
> >> recording. Digital recording requires a fast, stable connection,
> >> yet it doesn't seem to be an issue here at all. I'm at a loss to
> >> explain why FMI has decreed that external drives are not to be
> >> used for backup devices.
> >>
> >> Bob Patin
> >> Longterm Solutions
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> >> On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Troy Meyers wrote:
> >>
> >>> Bob,
> >>>
> >>> I heard that network drives weren't supposed to be, but why on
> >>> earth would an external drive not be supported? That seems
> >>> ludicrous. You don't want the backup in a machine that burns up....
> >>>
> >>> -Troy
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> I thought that FMI had stated that an external drive was not
> >>>> *supposed* to work as a backup location?
> >>>>
> >>>> This was discussed at Devcon, and I seem to recall hearing that
> >>>> it's
> >>>> not a scheme that FMI says should be used, and isn't supported.
> >>>>
> >>>> Someone correct me if I'm wrong here... ?
> >>>
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