At 12:55 PM 12/31/2003 -0500, Wil McGilvery wrote:

Backups in my opinion will never be a set it and forget it procedure. Periodic restores are necessary for peace of and the assurance that you can restore when necessary.

Tape and CD/DVD changers help but if the data is critical, someone still has to physically move the backups off-site and put fresh tapes or CD/DVDs in to the changer.

I have not heard of anyone successfully using cd's for backup purposes, but I do know of people using removable hard drives as an alternate to tape backups.

No one has successfully used CD's or DVD's? What sort of stories have you heard? Perhaps they were using el cheapo CD's? If one is serious about having good backups, you don't go for the cheapest backup media you can get. Cheers! Kevin. (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/) Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 |"What are we going to do today, Borg?" E-mail:kcozens at interlog dot com|"Same thing we always do, Pinkutus: Packet:ve3syb-XXPEJ3/fxIc at public.gmane.org#con.on.ca.na| Try to assimilate the world!" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | -Pinkutus & the Borg -- 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