[Gllug] Backup recommendations

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 12 Feb 2002, Jackson, Harry wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David Damerell [mailto:damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk]
>>You're missing the point that tapes stored offsite, while they may get
>>stolen or burned or whatever, will not suffer that fate _at the same
>>time_ as the system they are backing up.
>>Any home user can store tapes off site. Take 'em to work!
>Neither will removable hard drives.

That's not what was originally suggested, and quite a bit more
expensive because you're going to need more of them - at least two,
since you've got to have one out of the machine and one in the machine
to be backed up. And a mechanism for hot-swapping IDE drives, unless
you want to shut down your machine and take it apart every week. And
even so, it become prohibitively expensive if you want to extend your
backups back in time.

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

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