Another question : tape drive

Fri May 9 15:01:24 EDT 2003

I want it for free.  
But I'll agree read the adds during the restore ;-)

"Jack Coats" wrote:
> I have a friend that wants to start a 'remote backup service'.
> He is in Houston TX (far enough from Boston to keep most issues
> that effect one place from effecting the other).
> 
> what would a remote service be worth to computer hobbiests?
> 
> I have priced some services that are so high $$ that you don't want
> to use them unless you are making $$ out of it.  (like $100/gig/month
> and you get charged bandwidth for restores :(  )
> 
> So what would be good? ... JC
> 
> On Fri, 9 May 2003 10:15:17 -0400 (EDT), Chris Marget wrote
> > 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
> > 
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