On 3/21/07, john harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I HATE,HATE,HATE tape backups. I'd much rather copy data across the internet > to a remote site, or even copy to a local external hard drive and let the > client or a designee take it home every night.
Tapes might not be great but they're the only reliable backup media available today. Backing up to a couple of USB harddrives is not a decent backup solution (unless you use about 25 of them per year!). > We had a jukebox tape backup > system at the SCSO that supposedly performed a backup each night and sent me > an email indicating the job was successful or failed. Hmmm, one day, in a > galaxy far, far away, long, long ago (about 15 years) I show up for work and > one of my techs says our primary Novell file server was down. I said, okay, > replace the drives and reinstall from tape. He reinstalled the OS, then > loaded the tape drive and guess what, the tapes couldn't be read! We wound > up sending the disk off to OnTrack and $10k later, we had our data back! > Tape drives, smape drives..... This is a failure in the IT manager rather than a tape failure. More than likely the tape was years old (they do need replacing now and then you know!). > Y'all can have the tapes. Did I mention I HATE tape drives? Tape work just fine, and have for many decades. -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
