> There are trade-offs. We know that. The biggest argument that we have heard
> is that it presents a really big target when the disk gets damaged. The
> repair tool in 2004 was designed to seriously reduce that sort of problem.
> We can now recover files that have missing blocks in the middle of them.
Let me say that I took a big disk hit recently (hardware failure -- drive
replaced under warranty). Having just moved and with all my stuff in boxes,
my most-recent back up was 2 weeks old.
The drive was intermittently working for about two days before it utterly
died, and I was able to copy my (600 meg!) Entourage database off after
basically a day of trying.
The file was damaged, but the repair utility recovered it and I can find no
signs of lingering damage. I'd like to say: Nice work to all involved.
Much appreciated.
As somebody who is normally fastidious about backups, I now have less
concern about the fragility of the DB file, and more concern about the fact
that it's also a great, big target for regular backups! When I was still
using tape drives, it chewed a lot of tape in a hurry. Since I switched to
revolving backups to dual hard drives, I worry less, but still...
--Mike
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