On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Tilman Schmidt <t.schm...@phoenixsoftware.de> wrote: > Am 13.03.2012 19:46, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: >> Markus Falb wrote: >>> On 12.3.2012 01:37, Mark LaPierre wrote: >>>> Tape, and tape drives, have a bad reputation. They are difficult and >>>> time consuming to verify. >>> >>> Harddisks have a bad reputation too. They fail regulary. >>> >> Not that frequently. > > I beg to differ. Hard disk failures are by far the most frequent > hardware problem I encounter at work. And those external USB drives > people are so fond of for backup are certainly not better than > typical server drives in that respect.
When a disk fails, you still have the other copy. That's why they call it a backup. Otherwise, keep more than one disk as your backup media and rotate them. Now you have 3 copies. ❧ Brian Mathis _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
