Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: bkbits.net is down | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:50:17 -0400 |
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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) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |