No, it's no substitute.  Everyone hears the mantra, BackUp, BackUp, BackUp.
But you still will go to your customer and before doing something you
inquire when the last backup was done and you are shocked that they will
often reply with something like "last wednesday" (it's Tuesday next, Right?)
  Since storage is so cheap, if you still find yourself unable to drag
yourself to the server to change tapes, you could use a method I used
sucessfully for years that provided at least one days protection.  I just
kept another harddrive spinning (100gb + Ide drives now for $300 or so) and
used the Xcopy command run from a scheduler and set the command line
switches for Xcopy to copy only changed files.  Quick and effective one day
protection.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicky Avery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: R:Tango / Windows2000


> Perhaps it's unnecessary to mention this but RAID is a solution to
> hardware failure only (and RAID 0 isn't even that). If data becomes
> corrupted, one ends up with multiple good copies of bad data; RAID is
> not a substitute for backup.
>
> Nicky
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