14 Mar
2005
14 Mar
'05
2:26 a.m.
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 23:14 -0500, James Fogg wrote:
Over the years I've learned to never trust tape of
any kind. I expect a
backup system to be completely trustworthy and until recently I haven't
found any I'd trust that much. Maybe I shouldn't now, either - but I
haven't been burned lately.
IME/HO RAID arrays are where it's at... RAID 5 gives you increased
performance, redundancy, etc, etc, yadda, yadda.
But to protect from user error, buy disks. They're starting to run
cheaper than backup material the same size, and they're reliable over
time, and they're *fast*.
My 20 millidollars.
--
Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe at ifi.uio.no>