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Date:      Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:21:49 -0600
From:      "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine
Message-ID:  <9645FE68-04AE-4B74-AB33-4746A609E317@shire.net>
In-Reply-To: <42D80B5D.6060107@mac.com>
References:  <38171.1121430073@thrush.ravenbrook.com> <42D7EBDE.8030807@mac.com> <BC30FE72-677D-413E-AE10-7E8FB5356CB2@shire.net> <42D80B5D.6060107@mac.com>

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On Jul 15, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>
>> On Jul 15, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>>
> [ ... ]
>
>>> Hard drives provide near-online backup, but only a single full   
>>> iteration.  You can do incrementals to DVD or CD-RW or tape, and   
>>> keep many iterations handy, which is far more reliable.
>>>
>> If you use dump/restore you can do iterative backups to a spare HD  
>> as  well...
>>
>
> Sure.  But a single spare HD is a single point of failure.  Having  
> one tape per week or per month going back 10 or 100 tapes gives  
> much more redundancy....

Better yet -- using dump, backup to HD and then copy that dump file  
to tape or CD/DVD or another HD...

I use 2 HDs and alternate which one I dump to each week.

Chad

>
> -- 
> -Chuck
>
>

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