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SubjectRe: bkbits.net is down
From Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ...
DateSat, 28 Jun 2003 15:50:17 -0400
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 07:07:00 PDT, Larry McVoy said:

> I haven't had much luck with tape, I've found them to be fairly unreliable
> and slow over the years.  I've moved to using disk as backup and it works.
> It worked quite nicely in this case, I had a handful of places I needed
> random access to in order to fix up the problem.  Tape would have sucked.

One thing that tape gives you that most backup-to-disk don't is *OFFSITE*
backup.  Unless you're backing up over a fiberchannel or other network to
another machine in a *REMOTE* building, some things can take out the whole
enchilada.

Ask the crew at the Uni of Twente NOC......
(For what it's worth, our offsite vault is about 2 miles from our machine room)
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