Backup Solutions

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:53:35PM -0400, Neil Watson wrote:
> You can stack tapes in boxes and truck them off to Iron Mountain or your
> own safety deposit box via your bicycle.  Would you bet your data
> integrity and possibly your job on a disk surviving such transport and
> environmental hazards?  Hard drives are the most fragile part of any
> modern computer.  Suggesting that they be used as portable backup media
> is very risky

Actually modern harddisks seem pretty darn sturdy.  Some tape formats I
wouldn't even be sure would read back reliably 5 minutes after writing
it (like say DDS).  Perhaps those new 32GB solid state disks then,
except then tape might start to look affordable again.

> That's by you buy two drives.  Another option is to regularly migrate
> old backups to newer media. 

That sounds like a lot of (expensive) work.

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Len Sorensen
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