Need Suggestions for Automated Backup

[Chong Yu Meng]

Actually, I've only burned all of one CD on Linux. Most of the time I do 
it on Windows because I need to backup something (in case Windows goes 
belly up, or I have to submit documentation --in MSWord/Excel/Project 
format). The Linux CD was great! Burned great and worked well. I'm not 
sure if it's a hardware problem though -- my CD writer gets pretty flaky 
if I use my computer for too long, so I normally shutdown and let it 
cool off for about an hour before attempting a burn.

As for the data center -- well, let's just say that there is such a 
thing as too much security ! My thinking is this: if I was a terrorist, 
I would probably choose a high profile target, like the airport or 
something. If I blew myself up inside a data center, what would I have 
to boast about when I go to Paradise to claim my 72 virgins ? "Hey, 
babe, I took out 100 Sun and Wintel servers before I left --oh yeah, and 
one engineer who was a pain in the ass..."

Regards,
pascal chong


Ian Stephen wrote:

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