Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:40:55 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: v2.6 vs v3.0 |
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On 30 Sep 2002, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> One idea we've come up (and surely we're not the only ones) is to use > cheap IDE disks for backup, possibly in a cold-swappable insert. As long > as you can keep several backups per disk (say using some of those 100GB > disks), preferrably even on a different machine, that's fairly cheap. > > If you want to keep daily backups for a week, weekly for a year, and all > on separate media, of course, that's *not* cheap with this method, and > even DLT or similar prices become acceptable in comparision. But it > certainly beats *no* backup!
I do that, but it doesn't make for a storage medium I can easily use on another system. The cost of DVD writers is coming down, and non-magnetic media may have some advantages as well. Still, thay're small compared to disk sizes.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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