Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 09:09 AM 07/28/2004, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
>I don't think Darcy said anything about reliability, only about convenience,
>no?
No -- he said:
>> between computers -- and for backups, an internal HD is inherently less
>> reliable than an external solution. Plus there's the hassle of actually
I would guess that what he meant is not that internal drives fail more frequently, but that part of the idea of a backup is having a copy even if your computer is stolen or bursts into flames. Archival backups are generally made to external devices -- and if you're really serious, you store them not just in a different part of the room, but actually off-site somewhere in case your house burns down. This is different from backing up just to have a second copy in case your hard drive fails or in case you delete something by accident.
I will grant that nothing internal will withstand theft or fire. But then, if a fire burns down where the archive is stored, having it on an external HD won't save it, either. Neither will it save the data if there is a robbery.
But in reality, most data isn't destroyed by theft or fire, it's destroyed by HD malfunction or user error. In either case, having the data archived on an internal HD makes it extremely easy to restore. It's the existence of a duplicate that provides the security in the vast majority of data problems, not the location of the archive.
For ease AND security, have an internal backup HD and an external one (or use CDs or DVDs for off-site storage.)
Ultimately nothing is totally secure for backups, since HDs fail (even if stored off-site), CDs fail and DVDs fail, as do tape backups and Zip disks.
I used to backup my data faithfully, back in the days when the only methods were tapes or floppies, and the only times I ever had to restore the data, the backups failed. Now I archive it to a backup internal HD and also to CDrw media. Since I started doing that, the couple of times when I needed to restore something it was as easy as copying in Windows Explorer.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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