On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 03:37, Oleg wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 10:32, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > But if you seriously want to do backups, you should have a look at > > tape drives. Harddisks, especially IDE disks are in no way a safe > > medium. > > Don't tapes get torn, munched and demagnetized?
It's been years since I've seen that, but _maybe_ (or maybe not) that's because I shell out USD3,000 for a DLT drive and USD60 for DLT tapes... I'm sure AIT has the same quality. > Why not do backups on CD-R/RW? Hmmm. Let's see: Max uncompressed storage on CD: 700MB Max Uncompressed storage on tape: 110,000MB (SuperDLT) -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | "Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea | | which could only have originated in California." | | --Edsger Dijkstra | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]