Subj : To RAID or not to RAID?
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Evan Elias
Date : Fri Aug 20 2004 12:15 am

  Re: To RAID or not to RAID?
  By: Angus Mcleod to Sniper on Thu Aug 19 2004 08:53 am

 > of the tapedrive a waste of money.  You'd be better off building a separate
 > machine to copy your data to.  (We actually did this in the office.)

Actually, that's what we do at work too... put an otherwise
too-old-for-general-use desktop back into a useful state by making it our
backup system, dumping a bunch of tgz's there nightly and having a cron job
kill the backups over 5 days old.  Works well, have done recoveries from it
flawlessly, and it's essentially free (yay old hardware, aside from the newer
HD's) and took little time to set up.
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