Looking for backup software of complete system
John Thompson
JohnThompson at new.rr.com
Tue Oct 12 20:47:42 UTC 2004
Graham Leggett wrote:
> John Thompson wrote:
>
>> A good tape system is quite reliable; that's why tape backup is still
>> the gold standard in enterprise class installations. The initial
>> outlay for such a system can be higher than CD-RW, but the incremental
>> cost of adding media is lower and the media itself has a more proven
>> track record than CD-RW.
> The biggest drawback of a tape system is time taken to restore a file.
> When disaster strikes, the last thing you have is leisure time to find
> your data. Having the most critical stuff backed up to (multiple copies
> of) CDRWs is a definite win.
I actually do a "best of both worlds" method: backups are dumped to HD
every night, and once a week moved to tape. That way anything within the
last week is still readily available on the HD dump, and anything older
than that remains available on tape.
--
-John (john at os2.dhs.org)
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