[Gllug] Cant enable DMA

[Martin A. Brooks]

Simon Faulkner wrote:
>> "If you can't take it with you, it's not a backup".
> 
> Nice phrase.  What if 'It's already there'?  eg the MD has an rsync box 
> in his study at home...

"Backups" on online disk are copies, not backups.  The difference being 
that it's actually really quite hard to delete a tape backup by accident.

> Ironicly, When we sell a Win2K3 server with Exchange (8 to 10K) a £3K 
> tape system is easy to justify.  When we use a linux server for £1500 
> and free software customers are far more reluctant to pay £2K for a tape 
> system.

I've found the opposite.  People using free software usually have a 
better budget for hardware.  "Don't spend X hundreds of pounds of a copy 
of Exchange, buy a tape drive instead."

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