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

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>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 :)

Nice!

>>>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!

True.  But Linus said (as repored in a LWN kernel report) that due to changes in
the buffer architecture in 2.4.x that all cureent versions of "dump" have a
reasonably good chance of produce-ing invalid backups. :O  I'll see if I can dig
up the URL.

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