Re: Backup with hard disk and crontab

[Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo]

AB>>   Why not purchase a 4GB DAT drive (afaik, there are IDE dat drives as
AB>> well). Backups are to be made on either optical media or magnetic (or
AB>> magneto-optical) medias, but backing up a hard drive on another hard drive
AB>> is .... (can't find the word).

I'm not sure on this. First, there's mirroring, which can be viewed as the
most primitive backup form. :) Second, I know some systems where there
*is* backup on secondary HD as one of the backup stages (along with tape).
I think that the advantage is that one can instantly restore any file from
such a backup, and it's much faster. 

But for simple ones maybe better indeed to get DAT...
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