Alain Terriault wrote:
>
> How about archiving, I usually keep monthly backup of all my users
> files.
> Students comes and goes .. they sometime come back after a year or two.
>
> I agree mirror is nice, that is a little bit why I got my RAID-5 in the
> first place. I guess, I could buy two big IDE drives just to do my daily
> backup (mirror), I may just do that.
> For sure I will never mirror my files outside my office.
If you can afford it, you might think about getting/keeping
a backup at home. One of the things that was really streesed
in Cray's disaster recovery policy was to have at least one
off-site backup in case of fire. A backup in your desk isn't
much good if the desk burns.
Bob J,
