I can't stress enough how important it is to regularly verify that you can recover everything from your backup media. Over the last 20 years, I have frequently encountered situations where even relatively new backup media were unreadable. When I used DAT tapes, I once had 2 out of 3 that were unreadable for recovery. That's why I use Retrospect and have 3 sets of backup hard drives which I rotate regularly. I keep one set off- site in case of fire, flood or dogs.
I have a tray dock from WiebeTech http://tinyurl.com/yb4e3f which makes swapping drives easy and I have CD-R's of important stuff, too. "Trust--but verify."" **Leigh On Fri, Nov 10, 2006, Phil Daley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I agree that only one backup is living on the edge. > >I have 2 harddrives, one is a backup of the other. > >I also back up to CD-Rs, CD-RWs and DVD-RWs. > >So I usually have at least 4 copies of important data at any one time. > >I had an HD crash last year and all I lost was a week of my wife's emails. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
