>... A 160GB hard drive is about $260. That's much lower cost than >10 DDS-2 tapes and the changer hardware. ...
Agreed, but there is a fundamental difference here and that's the critical failure path. If one of those 10 tapes fails, you should still be able to recover the majority of your data. If that single disk fails, you're screwed. I'm not disagreeing with the idea of using disk for backup. Just saying it takes some thought to make it a safe setup (tape does too, of course). >Jeremy Wadsack John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
