Re: CD as backup

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From: Sandy King (sanking@clemson.edu)
Date: 12/02/02-06:08:21 PM Z


Mateo wrote:

>Yes, very unlikely, but Macs don't crash anymore :)

My G4 sure missed a lesson at the factory!!

Sandy King

> and any kind of disk can
>die. A more expensive solution would be to run a true hardware RAID, but
>most people are not going to spend that kind of money on a backup at home. I
>was only pointing out an economical way to save lots of data that does not
>involve lots of expensive small and proprietary media. I currently have 3 OS
>X Servers running system level RAID (in addition to attached hardware RAID)
>as sort of an experiment, they have all performed flawless for about a year
>now. It's the same software that comes with any OS X machine that people may
>have on their desk at home. I wouldn't think twice about suggesting someone
>run it on a small business, or especially home level.
>
>mateo
>
>on 12/2/02 2:43 PM, Pam Niedermayer at pam@pinehill.com wrote:
>
>> 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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