[Gllug] Advice on backup options

anth ajchapman at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 14:49:25 UTC 2004


On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:28:14 +0100, Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net> wrote:
> A single external hard drive is used for backup, as above, and taken
> off-site at the end of the day.

I've heard a few stories of this approach (or schemes with the backup
drive permanently attached) going wrong, resulting the data being lost
from both drives so no backup at all left.

Whatever you do don't assume that the backup works until you test it.
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