[Gllug] Backup recommendations

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 12 Feb 2002, Martyn Drake wrote:
>We have a similar thing at work here (however I do much prefer tape
>backups all in all) where we use IDE RAID to keep nightly dumps from our
>servers and then every two days we take out the spare, mirrored drive, and
>insert the third disk.  The contents from the first disk are then built
>onto the second disk, and so on.  We swap out disks like that every couple
>of days.  Not ideal, but it's a cheap and cheerful solution.

Umma. Doesn't the cost of IDE discs at L80 each quickly add up to more
than tapes would?

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

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