From: Nick Makris (nick@mcn.org)
Date: 12/02/02-03:58:16 PM Z
More than that, if you have a virus that kills your hard drive, it will
probably cause both the same problem.
N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam Niedermayer" <pam@pinehill.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: CD as backup
> 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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