Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

[Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Joerg Schilling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Backups.
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>> get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically.
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> Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks?
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You are seeing from the perspective of a sysadmin.
He was replying to me, a desktop user. My most important data occupy
little space and can surely be backed up in a 1 GB pen drive. The
music ripped from CDs, the linux ISOs and other kind of recoverable
data do not need backup.
As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a single DVD (and
to a second one, since I keep hearing that DVD-Rs are unreliable), and
since I don't take new photos every week, this solution is fine.