On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Harry G wrote: > What is a good choice for a backup medium for small users, other than > something like a $800 tape drive? (For use with LInux, of course!) > Is a 2nd drive a good choice?
Define "small users". Also, some information on what the box is used for might help. How much data do you need to backup, and how often do you need to back it up? FWIW, tape drives can cost significantly less than $800 (like i see DDS3 drives starting at $269, and AIT1 drives starting at $469). Sure, you could backup on a 2nd HD, however when that drive dies (and some day it will die, i assure you), you lose everything that is backed up on it. Also, if this is mission critical data that you're looking to backup, its not the best idea to keep your backups in the same physical box as the server. If something happened to the server, you could loose yoru backups (say it got hacked, and someone did a "rm -rf /", or there was a power surge, and it fried everything in the box). -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
