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 >> >> ================================================ >> TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: >> Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l >> ================================================ >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l >> > > >================================================ >TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: >Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l >================================================ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l
