> -----Original Message-----
> From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 3:32 PM
> To: Gregory Leblanc
> Cc: 'Jeff Hill'; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Disk v. Tape Backup -- Re: root on RAID
>
>
> 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.
Yes, AND I want it to be free (as in freedom). :-) We're WAY off of RAID
here, but for business critical information, that's what's required. RAID
is only one piece of a redundant system. Actually what I really want is to
have somebody other than myself move the dang tapes offsite. :-)
Greg
