Backup devices

[Robert Brandtjen]

On Monday 03 June 2002 11:20 am, bronto wrote:
> And, as I mentioned before, it does nothing to protect you from
> external disasters such as fire, theft,  earthquake or flooding.
> Solutions internal to the machine certainly narrow the range of
> issues that require backup, but they by no means eliminate the need.

well, from there you do a back up to a remote machine -

Amanda works fine for that. no matter what you use on site, it can be dam=
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by fire, flood, electrical short (UPS?) - theft, all will affect anything=
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site, so get a cable modem or some such, and do remote backups to tape - =
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far the best medium still - after all, you can't beat 20 -40 gig tapes.
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 Robert Brandtjen
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