On 8/2/07, Ian Dexter R. Marquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/1/07, ian sison (mailing list) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Again, my tirade against tape drives. > > > > DO NOT USE TAPE MEDIA FOR IMPORTANT BACKUPS! > > > > With tape media you will never know if your backups are indeed > > reliable when the time comes and you need to restore from them. > > Tropical climate makes the tape media vulnerable to fungus, so unless > > you store your tapes in a climate controlled room.... > > Hmm... But those robotic arm loaders are sooo darn pretty to watch at > work. :P Tape media *should* be just one stage of the backup/BCP/DRP > process. There are other options, of course: off-site storage, for > one. And, yeah, tape backups (and restores) are waaay too slow.
Ya know, those pretty little robotic arms are also available also for optical media as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_jukebox ;) _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
