James, Thanks for the Tower of Hanoi reminder. I used that many (many) years ago with 9" tapes on a Big Iron machine but had forgotten the technique. I’ve been using a FIFO seven-day rotation backup of my main user directory (using CCC), but I’m going to reconfigure it to get the longer backup “tail” provided by the ToH approach.
Jim 3222 NE 89th St Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 430-0109 > On Mar 8, 2021, at 6:55 PM, James Linder <j...@tigger.ws> wrote: > > All considered I’d take SSD for work disks and HD for long term backup > Heck in my day (ouch) we’d teach 'tower of hanoi' backup stratedgy using > tape. why not do likewise with HDs. Timemachine certainly make that easy. > > James
