On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 08:21, Tim Fournet wrote: > A simple email virus could destroy not only the live data, but the > backups as well, for one. There's also no means of off-site backup, > meaning all is lost in the event of a building disaster. > > Tapes are still the ideal solution. Unfortunately, tape drives haven't > kept up with hard drives in terms of price and capacity, so they're an > expensive solution. The cheapest I've seen is the OnStream product line. > Those drives seem to cost about twice as much as a hard drive, which > isn't really that bad. Tapes seem to be in the $30-50 range. Slightly > less desirable, but growing in populary is CDROM and DVD backups. This > is certainly cheaper, but in most cases requires manually changing of > media during backup unless you're willing to limit the size of the > backup set by only choosing certain files and directories.
I once had a problem with cdroms. I had to restore the data of something called PCLaw and could not get the accounts to work at all. The good thing is that I had the data. After a while I realized that the problem was that CDROMs make all the files read only. I knew that but just did not think about it until later, much later. > > On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 01:07, Alvaro Zuniga wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 19:02, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > At 12:17 AM 11/15/2002 -0600, you wrote: > > > >Dustin, I think that the price of Hard Drives this days is so cheap that > > > >a secondary drive is the best. If you have a problem with the computer > > > >you can always get the data back from some other computer. I use the > > > >nomount option in fstab to avoid problems. > > > > > > > >I hope that helps. > > > > > > A drive in another computer is not a good backup solution. > > > > > > > > I did not mean on another computer, in the same computer. > > > > What would be the problem of backing up in another computer. There is > > this office that has two computers that need backup service. I was going > > to put a drive in one of them and using windows networking have it > > shared on the other computer. The backup is for files and a few access > > databases, probably no more than 100megs. The process needs to be > > automatic. Do you see a problem there? > > > > Thanks, > > > > > --- > > > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Puryear Information Technology > > > Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting > > > http://www.puryear-it.com > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
