On 03/04 11:40 , Les Mikesell wrote: > And if you are really, really paranoid, you might also want to > consider the possibility of a bug in backuppc, your host OS, or > disk media that will make your primary copy flawed and propagate > to any other copies of it.
Having had backup software actually destroy the original data I was trying to back up (and a bunch of other stuff along with it), this is something to keep in mind. Backups sometimes are bad; disks fail; humans screw up. I've lost a bunch of data recently (tho nothing really vital) due to bad coincidences of backup problems and hardware problems in various combinations. I'm going to try to stick with a belt-and-suspenders approach of having BackupPC for onsite data backup, with tape (backups generated separately from the original data) for offsite backup. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
