On 9 Apr 2004, at 7:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
When my system has not crashed I make data permanent all the time with a CDRW
and DVD-RW device. Actually, I could have someone else do it as well, and I could
setup a cron job to do it later.
Thomas,
A few years ago, when we got to thinking about the most robust way to backup important information, we came to the conclusion that a backup off-site was essential, since there are many ways to lose data, not all coming from hard disk crashes.
Since we are generally too distracted to remember to take our newly-burned CD's somewhere out of the office for safe-keeping, we also set up a cronjob to rsync copies of important files from our production servers to an offsite (home) machine on the end of an ADSL line with a fixed IP address.
Best!
Denny Adelman
