Driver for Overland tape library

[David Bandel]

On 1/3/07, Man-wai CHANG <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:
> >
> > RAID is no substitute for backups.
> >
> > David A. Bandel
>
> Back up a RAID with another RAID? Must it be tapes?

No, it need not be tapes.  Backups should be:
1.  performed regularly (depending on how often files on the system may change)
2.  be kept off-site  (that means not in the same building -- some big
companies like Fedex, etc., will have two data sites, one with
accounting data, one with tracking data, and back up between the two
sites -- located in two different states).

If you think #2 isn't important, look at how much data was lost in New
Orleans by small companies with backups kept locally.  I'm willing to
bet it was a lot.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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