From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 10 17:30:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A01E37B409 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 17:30:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 176KmP-000539-00; Sat, 11 May 2002 02:30:33 +0200 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4ANhhtm012679 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 01:43:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4ANhhYc012678 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 May 2002 01:43:43 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Backing up my CDs [was Re: My horror story] Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 23:43:42 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20020510140416.C16272-100000@mrami.homeunix.org> <20020510111431.S40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org> <20020510202733.A89576@lpt.ens.fr> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > So how about buying two or more hard drives and mirroring > them, eg vinum? Might not have helped in the case that triggered this thread. Won't help in case of an accidental rm(1). Won't help when an electrical problem kills all drives in the same box. Unlikely? Maybe, but it has happened twice to me, so far. If you can't take the medium out, it ain't a backup. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message