On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 10:16 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > After using and selling "Enterprise" IT products and services for nearly > ten years, I do not trust any backup solution as far as I can throw the > media. They all more or less suck, and exist purely to give a false > sense of security and "we did our due diligence" to the purchaser. > > I use and recommend to those who ask for an honest opinion the Linus > Torvalds backup strategy: "Real men upload their important data to FTP > servers and let the world download it." That doesn't mean to upload your > corporate database, but it does mean to replicate the data to other > locations and use hard disks.
My feelings exactly. I didn't have access to expensive high-tech equipment, but I did have more backups of one sort or another of everything that I considered important than you can believe. Everyone thought I was mad. Then one night, burglars struck. My backups worked. Ten days after the burglary, they struck again. My backups worked. Despite trying desperately to plug all possible ways of entrance, the next time they came they ram-raided the front door, and again took the file server and backup drive. My backups did work, even this time. And the upshot of that was that I was still able to get insurance, which I would not otherwise have got, I believe. Yet in spite of all that, I still could not bring myself to trust a system that rejected its own tapes with such regularity. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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