better disk reliability on a desktop machine

[lars]

Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 15, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> 
> Agreed.  Having an online backup location which then gets dumped to tape 
> or some second place is excellent, since it makes restoring via rsync or 
> whatever very easy.
> 
> As someone else suggested, you can also stick things like config files 
> into version control (like CVS, subversion, etc), and then back that up 
> via the mechanism above.
> 
How fitting, my HDD with FreeBSD on it just failed, RIP.
But appr. 2h ago I backed up all my files to my storage server ;-)