Another question : tape drive

[Chris Marget]

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> My strategy is
> that 2 hard drives are not going to crash simultaneously (which is not a
> 100% valid assumption).

barring lightning strike (not a problem around here, usually), you're right.
the risk of trashing data on *both* disks by human error, evildoer, filesystem
corruption is very real...

The original poster didn't specify, but i assume anyone shopping for a tape
drive is interested in archive, not necessarily redundancy.

there are important distinctions between archive backups and redundant backups.

the best situation is to have both a RAID setup in the computer AND a bunch of
disks/tapes on the shelf (somewhere far far away).

/chris