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

[John R. Jackson]

>> 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.

Actually, all you'd have to lose is the one file you really, really need,
which is much more likely than the whole disk.

The solution, as everyone agrees, is more tapes.

>-Mitch

John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]