| Date | 30 Sep 2002 08:54:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: v2.6 vs v3.0 |
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tadams-lists@myrealbox.com (Trever L. Adams) wrote on 29.09.02 in <1033316012.1326.17.camel@aurora.localdomain>:
> I can play with that doesnt' have so much important data on it. (I hate > to say it, but I haven't been able to afford, $$ wise, backup for a few > years... I know... I can't afford not to either).
Tape drive cost?
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!
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