[expert] To backup or not to backup

[Arthur]

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 10:46:47 -0500, Alain Terriault
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I use a dat24 form HP and BRU for backup of all the machines and that
>RAID.  I found out I could only put 12Gig on one DAT .. never could get
>24 under any UNIX.  So it takes 3 night to bk everything .. this is
>really not ideal.

I once asked Walnut Creek how they back up their huge disk storage.
They told me they don't back it up!! If it breaks they reconstruct
from their mirrors.

I was astounded at first, but as I thought more about it, I decided to
do the same myself.  I have mirrors of most everything, and real tape
backups for only configuration data like /etc.