Re: Backup hard drive

[flash@pro-applejacks.cts.com (Glenn Koproske)]

lee@pro-novapple.clark.net (Lee Raesly) writes:

>And if you get a Hard Drive, it's ONLY advatage in a business situation is
>Speed, NOT Storage. NEVER BACK UP A HARD DRIVE!!!!
> 
>If your HD crashes, you must either get it repaired, or buy a new one,
>before you can restore your backup.

Naaaah.  Speed is important, but hard drives are the sole storage media in
businesses.  Floppies are still unreliable and are only useful for sneakernet.

As for backing up, it is very seldom if ever that a hard drive crashes. 
Where our tape backups come into play on a regular basis is either when a
user deletes something and needs it back, or if they have to set things back
a week or a month or a quarter and re-run a business process to generate new
numbers.  A tape is the slickest way to do this.

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