On Sunday 16 November 2008 14:36:22 William Kenworthy wrote: > I wouldnt call it fair trade, rather "its working now and we'll make it > better it eventually." > > I agree, backups should be just that - protection from mistakes/lost > data. However this is from someone who has the archives mounted via nfs > and can browse via filemanager an retrieve files that way via a desktop. > Currently I have my freeruner mobile phone, mythtv critical files and a > number of systems such as laptops backed up this way and its been very > reliable and useful, both as automatic/unattended and manually run.
OK I see where you are coming from. When you say backup/restore to me, I think in terms of what I'm used to - massive tape archives holding many multi-TB of data for thousands of hosts. What you are describing is indeed a backup, but in my world I'd probably call it something else. Perhaps I should have been more explicit and said "Disaster Recovery Archival Backup" instead of "backup"... :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
