> I'm still picking up the pieces from a major FTP archive crash that > lost me a considerable amount of data.
Disks are cheap. Many years ago, one of the guys I worked with pointed out to me/us that it was cheaper to buy more disks than it was to pay us at our normal sallary to figure out which bits should be saved. You can do a lot of handwaving in that area, but that's the general idea. My straw man for low cost backup is a USB disk. I'm thinking of a real rotating disk rather than the typical flash "disk". The key idea is that after you pull the cable, your system can't trash the bits. That is neither software nor fat fingers will delete anything. It isn't perfect, but it's close and simple. Any interesting bits should be backed up multiple ways. If any time-nuts have bits that aren't (well) backed up, please contact me off line so we can work out some way to add another backup copy to the system. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
