Re: [SLUG] Inexpensive Tape Drive

From: Robert Haeckl (rhaeckl@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2001 - 18:37:11 EDT


Bill Ehlert wrote:
>snip
>
> The dentist keeps 6 hard drive cartidge and rotates them, pulling the 6th
> for montly saves. Now for the cool stuff - he takes the backup offsite, as
> in home, with him every day and brings in an old drive back in the morning
> to be updated. He pops the backup in his home computer and verifies files.
> Here's the really good part - If a patient calls with an emergency after
> office hours, he has all their records and Xray images at home! He know what
> was done and uses the information to help his patients. I love it when that
> happens.
>
> snip

Do you dump all file systems or make copies/tars of selected directories
and files? And if you do a full backup to the harddrive, say once a
week, can you put daily incrementals on the same HD and seek to the
appropriate volume if you need to restore?

-Robert



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