Paul on Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:41:09 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Incremental Backups to CD-RW


Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:

and/or monthly backups.  For daily use, maybe dumping or syncing with
another hard drive would be enough.



See i think backing up to spinning disk is plain silly and insane, but then again im old fashion and use to disks that crash every so often (hence the backups). The theory behind a backup is you can put it in a closet and its safe for a long time.... putting disks in the closet is quite expensive and cumbersome.


Disk mirroring, rsync'ing, or just copying data is what I had in mind. Either to another local disk, or to a remote host. What are the odds that within one week you will lose two hard drives? If you do, you would still have your weekly backup to CD-ROM to fall back on. And how much of your data actually changes daily?


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