Ron Johnson wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1On 03/01/07 03:00, steef wrote:Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/07 01:14, Joe Hart wrote:[snip]yes! that went perfect for two years. last week we lost many electronic data of our (small) business because essent (energy-producer and distributor) failed for five minutes while i was backing up to another hd in the same machine. so: i am repairing all (two weeks work) and i *will* use not-rewritable dvd's because they seem maybe more than a hd independent of external factors. (this is not completely true of course; like most statements).Good: your business did regular backups! *REALLY BAD*: your business did regular backups to the same media!! _Always_ have multiple backup media and rotate between them. (The "enterprise" learned that decades ago during the era of 9-track tapes, which were prone to read and write failures. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF5thKS9HxQb37XmcRAogkAKCo/QkutJttuHLHUFvMcebySpuENgCeJpjy ItY61luQGgJCLqLto3G9jLc= =WVUn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Shouldn't the answer to the general question of backup media include the concept of 'archival'?
Data on a random access read/write device such as a hard disk can be quickly and easily lost due to simple typos. Using a "tried and true" (yeah, there's always a bug lurking somewhere, I know, but you gotta make some trade offs) program and standard process to move valuable data to a medium that tends to not be overwritten unless you take extra steps, seems like a good thing to me.
Bob
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