[KLUG Members] Re: New machine - Linux hardware?

[Jamie McCarthy]

Richard points out:

> unless you mount the drive in a drive enclosure where you can
> take the drive with you, in the event of a fire BOTH the drive
> and the backup get toasted!

True!

I actually do my backups to DVD-RAM (got this spiffy drive in my
Mac, where all my valuable data resides, and while they aren't
offsite, at least they're out-of-box :)


adam@morrison-ind.com (Adam Tauno Williams) writes:

> > Backing up to a hard drive is fast, automatic, and
> > verification is easy.
> 
> But you get no cycle.  If you backup before you realize you
> deleted that file.... DOHHHHH!!!!

Not necessarily... "dump" lets you do incremental backups and they
work the same to tape or to disk.  IIRC.  Correct me if I'm wrong!

--
 Jamie McCarthy
 jamie@mccarthy.vg