And then add a second controller and mirror the drives and you have a very
cost-effective real-time backup system against a single hard-disk or
controller failure.

-----Original Message-----
From: MikeB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: R:Tango / Windows2000


>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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