Subject: Re: Backup Software Question
From: Christoph Sold (so@server.i-clue.de)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 12:02:13 EDT
Ryan McBeth wrote:
>
> You know, another thing you can consider is something else we
> have running. I call it a "poor man's RAID". Just purchase 2 hard
> drives of the same size. Use one hard drive as your working file
> server. Back up the entire drive to the second hard drive every
> night. That way, you have a complete backup of the system every day.
>
> It's simple, and it works for those "oh shoot, I just erased
> file X", and it's faster than searching for the correct tape.
Until the person asking for the backupo mentions "I had deleted this
file the day before..."
Backups to hard disks are no backups. If you want to have speedy acces
to document history, install your own CVS server. This one is much
better at getting at old version really fast. If you need security, do a
backup to removable media, and store it offsite.
>Just my EUR.02
-Christoph Sold
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