On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Robert Brockway wrote:

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- A backup that isn't off site isn't a backup at all.

No, both on-site and off-site backups are useful, as hedges against different classes of problems.

Indeed. On-site backups can typically be applied _much_ more quickly than off-site backups. I'd buy that you have not got a robust _set_ of backups if there isn't something useful off site. But a really useful approach to doing backups is to copy data to a local host that may be a "gateway" for the offsite backup. In cases of small disasters, the data at the gateway location is quite likely to provide the most convenient means of recovery.. -- "cbbrowne","@","cbbrowne.com" http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/backup.html Don't be so open-minded that your brains fall out. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml