On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:58, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > Yep! And part of that is, what is the best backup (sub)system? CDs?
> > DVDs? Tape?
>
> Answer yourself these questions:
> * How much data volume to back up?
> * How often?
> * What's your budget?
> * What's your loss if you lose the data, expressed in dollars?
>
> This gives you most of your own answer.
>
> > Perhaps that should be a talk subject, done by someone wiser and more
> > experienced than myself? Show of hands?
>
> I could prepare a talk about that.
Always remember that your own stuff, docs, scripts etc is irreplaceable.
This has a higher priority in my system that ~150 Gig of downloaded
software, mind you I would not like to replace it, but it could be done.
Phil.
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