On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 at 19:36 -0700, Ross Werner wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Hans Fugal wrote: > >On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 at 12:06 -0500, Matthew Frederico wrote: > >>I think the first question you need to ask yourself the question "Why" > >>you are backing files up. > > > >I agree. In my case, it's redundancy of important don't-lose-it data. > >Another hard drive would be fine, if it's external to the system (as in, > >one electrical mishap won't fry both drives), however too expensive. > > Is this "too expensive" as in Newegg's cheapest drive ($44 20GB) is too > expensive, or "too expensive" as in you don't have another external box on > your local network to put this hypothetical cheap drive in?
Yup, it's "too expensive" as in if I had a spare $44, I'd get some RAM for my laptop (which currently has 256M) instead. > Either way, I really think the extra hard drive route is going to be > cheapest. Getting a CD-R/RW solution set up, and manually managing backups > (you have to have someone manually sticking discs into the drive) is going > to be quite expensive in terms of your time. Finding a drive to plop in > a box on your local network and sticking rsync in your crontab is going to > be far easier and far more reliable. And easier to recover from as well. Opportunity cost is great in theory, but unless I've got clients beating down the door and/or a job where I can work unlimited hours (and want to), it's a moot point. But thanks for the suggestions. I agree an external drive is the easiest, but my question is still about CDRW. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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