On Tuesday 05 February 2008 13:14, Alex Hewitt wrote: > overnight and when they come to work they run a small script which > transfers the backup to the removable hard drive. They take it with them > when they leave at the end of the day. These drives although reasonably > rugged can't take a drop while they're spinning. Furthermore I've had
Unless they've got a rotation of several drives, this is a worthless as an off-site backups scenario. If they go next door for lunch during the day and a fire erupts, who will get the drive? It's unreasonable to think they won't leave it at their desk and it's a bad idea to leave it in the car on a very hot or cold day. In order for off-site backups to work, you need at least 3 copies (perhaps of varying dates) of the data to ensure that both of two copies are not in the same place at once. -N _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
