Re: CD as backup

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From: Pam Niedermayer (pam@pinehill.com)
Date: 12/02/02-03:43:48 PM Z


Yes, but you are vulnerable to a serious system crash. It's unlikely to
happen, but there's nothing preventing the OS from trashing two disks at
once.

Pam

Mateo wrote:

>...
>
>For Mac users (OS X), an inexpensive and easy way to manage backup is to
>invest in TWO large FW drives (<$500) and use the OS to setup a simple
>mirrored RAID. This scenario gives you around 60G of redundancy without
>taking time to do a backup. If you want a hard copy backup or need to use
>the file offsite burn a DVD, or use another portable FW dive. As someone
>said earlier a DVD and CD will be around a lot longer than a proprietary
>Iomega disk.
>
>mateo
>
>


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