Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 23:43:42 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up my CDs [was Re: My horror story] Message-ID: <abhlve$c5e$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20020510140416.C16272-100000@mrami.homeunix.org> <20020510111431.S40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org> <20020510202733.A89576@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> 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 messagehelp
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