[Gllug] Backup recommendations

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 12 Feb 2002, jim at lateral.net wrote:
>I too like my SCSI but if you are going to do back ups seriously consider
>IDE storage arrays apart from the initial drive cost you have no on going
>overheads unlike tape. Two 80GB IDE drives in a mirror array will give you
>redundancy so if the one drive goes you can still recover your data.

Unless the room burns down, the machine is stolen, the disc controller
goes mad, the PSU breaks and kills everything in the case, someone
pours coffee into the machine...

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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