better disk reliability on a desktop machine
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
chad at shire.net
Fri Jul 15 19:21:51 GMT 2005
On Jul 15, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>
>> On Jul 15, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>>
> [ ... ]
>
>>> Hard drives provide near-online backup, but only a single full
>>> iteration. You can do incrementals to DVD or CD-RW or tape, and
>>> keep many iterations handy, which is far more reliable.
>>>
>> If you use dump/restore you can do iterative backups to a spare HD
>> as well...
>>
>
> Sure. But a single spare HD is a single point of failure. Having
> one tape per week or per month going back 10 or 100 tapes gives
> much more redundancy....
Better yet -- using dump, backup to HD and then copy that dump file
to tape or CD/DVD or another HD...
I use 2 HDs and alternate which one I dump to each week.
Chad
>
> --
> -Chuck
>
>
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