On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:16, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:00, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 9:48 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > > civileme wrote:
> > > > Then one day I arrived at work to find the fileserver unresponsive.  I
> > > > eventually powered down and found the disk would not boot and enough of
> > > > it was corrupted to make the rest inaccessible.  OK no problem, data is
> > > > on tapes, let's reload OS---  done  reach for tape
> > > >
> > > > Oops--tape is unreadable
> > > > reach for two week old tape--Errrr gee that one is no good either
> > > > Tapes sent to data recovery service--well whattayaknow  They charged
> > > > quite a bit to give me the bad news that six years of work was lost.
> > >
> > > That's what the verify feature of your backup program is there for.
> > > It take twice the time and it'll probably cause more wear and tear on
> > > the tape but at least you'll know the tape is readable.
> > >
> > 'Fraid not.  I was running backup with full verify, but it still didn't stop 
> > the drive from refusing the tape next time, saying it couldn't read it.  And 
> > I was using good quality branded DAT tapes.
> > 
> > Anne
> 
> 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.

Want some bad hdd's!  got about 60 gigs of them here.  Smallest is 200mb
(been helping friend re-archive is life the last 3 weeks.)..... It comes
down to an old telco procedure. Check the primary every day and the
secondary twice as often.  
-- 
James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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