Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:15:41 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine Message-ID: <42D80B5D.6060107@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <BC30FE72-677D-413E-AE10-7E8FB5356CB2@shire.net> References: <38171.1121430073@thrush.ravenbrook.com> <42D7EBDE.8030807@mac.com> <BC30FE72-677D-413E-AE10-7E8FB5356CB2@shire.net>
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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.... -- -Chuck
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