Re: Can I use only one tape for backing up all the week?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi all!

Mitch wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
> 
> > if you're data is important enough to back it up,
> >     it's also important enough to buy a few more tapes.
>  
> agreed, but...
> 
> > With 1 single tape, you have a single point of failure (that tape).
> 
> No, not really.  He'd have to lose both the disk and the tape in
> order to lose the data.  Not that it can't happen, but it's not a
> single point of failure.

You _do_ have a single point of failure for _some_ period of
time. If the disk fails during your one tape backup, your
data is lost.

Regards,
Patrick