Re: Can I use only one tape for backing up all the week?

[Mitch Collinsworth]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

> if you're data is important enough to back it up,
>     it's also important enough to buy a few more tapes.
 
agreed, but...


> With 1 single tape, you have a single point of failure (that tape).

No, not really.  He'd have to lose both the disk and the tape in
order to lose the data.  Not that it can't happen, but it's not a
single point of failure.

-Mitch