On Jul 15, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote:



3c: Opinions on using firewire hard disks for this at all? Would I be
    better off writing DVDs?


Hard drives provide near-online backup, but only a single full iteration. You can do incrementals to DVD or CD-RW or tape, and keep many iterations handy, which is far more reliable.

If you use dump/restore you can do iterative backups to a spare HD as well...

Chad



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