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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