Why are you backing up? What if your machine catches fire? What if your
office catches fire? What if someone steals your machine? What if your
power supply sends mains voltage to every device in the case?
-- Mike
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jeff Hill wrote:
> I know this is off-topic, but since it was brought up ;)
>
> Why not use an old disk, outside of the RAID, for backups? I mount old
> IDE drives for backups only: tarring the entire system to the backup
> drive once a week, changed files daily. Seems to work better for me than
> tapes which always had problems, but maybe I had a poor tape system.
> When I've had to re-install the OS on test machines because I bungled
> something, it seems to work well and quickly. But maybe I'm missing
> something?
