If this is a business, in case of a fire (or other disaster) you should have off-site storage of your data. And often, daily is good, weekly is ok. Depends on how much data you can afford to lose. I give my mom a box of tapes about twice a year. :) I can't believe I said that! So embarrassing. Guy -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alvin Oga Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 10:53 AM To: Gordon Henderson Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Good news / bad news - The joys of RAID - backups hi ya gordon On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Gordon Henderson wrote: > But how valuable is your data? (As I keep telling my clients!!!) that's why all my data is stored on 3 or 5 servers :-) personally, i trust disks more than i trust tapes and i want the "backup" to be live, just in case, and most likely, there is not time to restore from tapes and/or worst, lost/misplaced tapes because someone forgot to rotate it tapes are great for offsite archive, where no one will look at again for years ... until the lawyers want to see it > RAID is great, but it's not for archive and backup. raid is great for archives and backup .. - give disk1 to the CEO - give disk2 to the CFO - give disk3 to the CTO - give disk4 to the COO - give disk5 to the local disk jockey no one person can reconstruct sensitive data :-) c ya alvin http://ITX-Blades.net ..... 15TB per 4U chassis ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
