On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:56:57PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> un-planned need to restore an entire system from tape. Usually the restores
> that I do are because Joe User deleted his all important spreadsheet, and
> NEEDS to have it back. I definately agree that RAID shouldn't (and can't)
> replace tapes. I use RAID to protect my systems, and tapes to protect the
> data that's housed on those systems. I don't consider my OS as data, but
> the config files are definately data (overwriting smb.conf is not good...).
So what you're saying is that you want a logged fs w/ snapshots on a RAID
array and off-site tape backups... Everything you want in a convenient
package: on-line "backups" for quick recovers of recent data (up to
the last snapshot), long-term backups off-site for DR, and resilience
against disk failures through RAID.
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