Need Suggestions for Automated Backup

[Ian Stephen]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 19:54, Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> The reliability problem I had in mind was this : my experience with CDs 
> is, out of 10 CD's burned, there's always one that's messed up (i.e. 
> buffer underflow/overflow causing the CD to be useless). 

Wow!  I've never had a CD mess up under Linux.  I burn at 4x with
CDRecord and occasionally K3b.  My "Designed for Windows XP" Compaq
notebook wouldn't burn a CD at all under Windows XP.  I didn't bother
finding out what the trouble was because the burner works flawlessly
under Mandrake 9.1.

Data centre access is quite restricted here (Canada) too in a mechanical
sense, but probably lacks the human attention that it might get in much
of the world.  I'm an electrician and have found I can go anywhere if
I'm wearing my tool belt.

Last time I was working in an electrical load centre beyond the
protection of the UPS in a data centre I wondered if anyone even knew
what horrors would result if I fumbled a tool.  Maybe I should have a
talk with those IT guys about coordinating backups and electrical work.

IanS