It looks like mirroring to a hard drive is the most reliable and
inexpensive way to go. But in a production setting or mission critical
situations, aren't taped backups and archives still the popular way to
go to recover from a complete system failure? Mirroring or high
availability techniques only cover you for disk failure, no?
-Robert
> My experience with tapes has been uneven. I still use them, but I don't
> trust them. I've had too many tapes eat bytes and then be unwilling to
> spit them back out properly, just when I needed the bytes. Including
> under DOS and Windows. Plus tapes and drives are expensive when you get
> them in the size capable of backing up modern high-capacity hard drives.
> And they take a helluva long time to do a full backup on a large drive.
>
> As I said, I do use tapes, but a better solution is to mirror your hard
> drive to another hard drive for daily backups. It's very fast, and the
> likelihood of both drives going down at the same time is low. Then you
> can do regular tape backups for something more transportable and
> permanent.
>
> Paul
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