Need Suggestions for Automated Backup

[Kurt Wall]

Consuming 1.2K bytes, Ian Stephen blathered:
> 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.

...which is a security risk all by itself. You're probably okay,
even though you *are* one of those wily Canucks.

> 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.

Couldn't hurt.

Kurt
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