Why are you backing up? What if your machine catches fire? What if your
office catches fire? What if someone steals your machine? What if your
power supply sends mains voltage to every device in the case?
-- Mike
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jeff Hill wrote:
> I know this is off-topic, but since i
> -Original Message-
> From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> To: Gregory Leblanc
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> Subject: Re: Disk v. Tape Backup -- Re: root on RAID
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:56:57PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> un-planned need to restore an entire system from tape. Usually the restores
> that I do are because Joe User deleted his all important spreadsheet, and
> NEEDS to have it back. I definately agree that RAID shouldn't (and can't)
>
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 05:38:27PM +, Jeff Hill wrote:
> I know this is off-topic, but since it was brought up ;)
>
> Why not use an old disk, outside of the RAID, for backups? I mount old
> IDE drives for backups only: tarring the entire system to the backup
> drive once a week, changed file
Both of my replies are below.
> -Original Message-
> From: Jeff Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 9:38 AM
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> Cc: Gregory Leblanc; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Disk v. Tape Backup -- Re: root on RAID
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>
> I
I know this is off-topic, but since it was brought up ;)
Why not use an old disk, outside of the RAID, for backups? I mount old
IDE drives for backups only: tarring the entire system to the backup
drive once a week, changed files daily. Seems to work better for me than
tapes which always had prob
