Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:55:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Autoloading Tape Drives Message-ID: <199907231255.IAA43423@bilver.magicnet.net> In-Reply-To: <3797F505.9C753B02@tinker.com> from Carol Deihl at "Jul 22, 1999 11:52:21 pm"
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Carol Deihl recently said: > Brian Scott wrote: > > Can anyone recommend any autoloading tape drives that they've had > > success with? I have about 15 gigs that need backed up nightly. 15GB will fit on singles tapes anymore. > A variation that you might consider is to do your nightly > backups to a large disk. Multiple backups from multiple machines > can run simultaneously, unlike a tape. Then, if you really need > to save the backups on a tape, you can run the backup disk off > to a tape during the day, when there is a person available to deal > with the inevitable problems. Also, it's *much* easier to restore > from the backup disk than from a tape (speaking from the "oops I > really didn't intend to delete that file" experience!). I don't doubt the easier part. However be aware that you can't restore from a hard drive to the original if it's in the same building that just got hit by fire, flood, whatever. I had one client - who was really quite lucky - that found his interuption of business insurance would not pay for data recovery if he didn't have off-site backups. I'd been pleading with him for years to do this. The thought of having to spend tens of thousands of dollars for data recontruction and having to pay the bill himself woke him up. (Money talks!) Now backups go off site all the time. Bill -- bv@wjv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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