[nycbug-talk] off site backup

[Francisco Reyes]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, pete wright wrote:

> testing and eventual recovery.  how do people do this on a drive, when
> say after a year or two of shelf life the disk itself is not spinning
> up or some blocks get curropted?

Not really following your strategy..
When using HDs as backups.. the backup drives will be connected 
somewhere.. and will be written to pretty often.

One good combination may be HD backup for recent data, tape for older 
data.