[Gllug] Tape backups

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Tue Feb 17 21:31:51 UTC 2009


Nix wrote:
> By that definition there is no real point individual users ever taking
> 'backups' at all: all backup media that satisfy those constraints are
> intolerably expensive.
>   

No, there's never harm in people making multiple copies of their data, 
there _is_ a problem when people equate this to an enterprise grade data 
recovery system.  "I have a backup" is usually a (for the most part 
entirely innocent) lie; the person means "I have a copy of my stuff".
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