On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 8:50 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 17:28, Robert Barry wrote: > > I'm a CPA in my real life and I decided to go with > > removable hard drives for our office network. > > > > I just setup a mandrake server and use samba to backup > > up the NT fileserver right on to the removable hard > > drive. I have a set of shell scripts that mount the > > NT fileserver directories and cron runs it everynight > > at 11pm. It does about 3GBs of data. Then I shutdown > > and swap hard drive so I have a drive rotated offsite > > to my house. I usually swap hard drives every few > > days. > > Robert... The last line about backing up to a second location physically > is the best.... Fire that destroy's your primary gets the tapes in the > other room as well. > Which is why "off-site backup" is always recommended - whether you do it by electronic transfer or taking a tape home with you.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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