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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