Re: v2.6 vs v3.0

Kai Henningsen
2002-09-30T07:01:29Z

tadams-lists@myrealbox.com (Trever L. Adams) wrote on 29.09.02 in <1033316012.1326.17.camel@aurora.localdomain>:

> I can play with that doesnt' have so much important data on it. (I hate
> to say it, but I haven't been able to afford, $$ wise, backup for a few
> years... I know... I can't afford not to either).

Tape drive cost?

One idea we've come up (and surely we're not the only ones) is to use
cheap IDE disks for backup, possibly in a cold-swappable insert. As long
as you can keep several backups per disk (say using some of those 100GB
disks), preferrably even on a different machine, that's fairly cheap.

If you want to keep daily backups for a week, weekly for a year, and all
on separate media, of course, that's *not* cheap with this method, and
even DLT or similar prices become acceptable in comparision. But it
certainly beats *no* backup!

MfG Kai