Part of a properly maintained backup is knowing that you can restore. You can only do that by trying to restore occasionally.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Stan Zaske <[email protected]> wrote: > No issues at all other than the fact that my drive wouldn't read the backup > tape that I made when I needed it. It ran fine as far as I could tell but > the money I spend on it was considerable back then and I was not happy. > > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:04:10 -0600, Christopher Fisk > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I really don't see what issues people have with tape. A properly >> maintained and executed tape backup is great. >> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Thane Sherrington >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> At 04:36 AM 10/03/2011, Stan Zaske wrote: >>>> >>>> How many hundreds of millions have been spent by people on backup >>>> software >>>> that doesn't work? Even the free stuff is crap! Get another hardrive and >>>> a >>>> USB thumb drive to duplicate your irreplaceable data. Backup software is >>>> just another scam. The federal government itself can't backup >>>> irreplaceable historical data because old formats die and fail to get >>>> transfered to new formats. History is being lost as we speak. Multiple >>>> copies work and that is the best way to keep from losing it all. >>> >>> I rather agree. I've dealt with a lot of backup software that just >>> doesn't >>> work properly. The one that has been best for me as been Retrospect. >>> I'm >>> now looking for software that will back up to the cloud, but that seem >>> tricky to find a good one as well. >>> >>> T >>> >>> > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ >
