22 Jan
2010
22 Jan
'10
5:52 p.m.
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:38:25 -0800
Larry McVoy <lm(a)bitmover.com> wrote:
You guys are funny. I've been doing backups for
at least 15 years
and I can tell you story after story about tape failures that
happened to me personally
Same here. What I wanted to say: Tapes fail. But disks
fail too. Be
prepared if your backup system fails, regarless of tape, disk, DVD, ...
(anyone remember the lovely exabyte 8200,
"fondly" remembered as the write-only device?).
Yes. Being helical scan
Exabytes are flaky. But once an EXB-8200 saved
my but. My main disk died and I could restore everything from my lovely
old Exabyte.
--
tschüß,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
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