On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Henry Spencer wrote:

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.

Ok, my statement was probably an over simplification but it was aimed at driving home the point that a company (or even a home user) needs to have backups that will protect them from site destruction before they can consider their data even slightly safe. Too many companies religiously take backups and leave them lying on top of the server, or worse, still in the drive. As it happens I do advocate on site backups. I've certainly used them many times to effect fast recoveries when obtaining an off site backup would have slowed the recovery process considerably. When building a backup solution, resources allowing, I will setup a staging area on disk somewhere to hold backups. From the staging area the backups can go off site by the chosen means. This is a big area so I won't go on, but issues like security of the staging area (or even staging/backup server) need to be considered. Security of the data off site as well. I've been thinking about a talk on backup best practice for TLUG. I went in to this a little at the end of my optimization[1] talk but have we had anything else like this recently? [1] Spelling corrected for a North American audience. No one tried to correct my Anglo-Australian spelling during the talk but I did receive an email afterwards :) Rob -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org, zzbrock at uqconnect.net Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah -- 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