Re: Remote storage

From: winged (winged_at_nofollow.com)
Date: 04/13/05 

Date: 12 Apr 2005 23:54:19 EDT

Moe Trin wrote:
> In article <d3fhs7$ss5@dispatch.concentric.net>, winged wrote:
>
>
>>I don't use an online solutions, though I know several services allow 1
>>GB storage where one could achieve with data snips less than 10MB
>>segments via e-mail mechanisms if one were creative. My home pipes just
>>don't support net storage solutions well.
>
>
> Catastrophic storage (fire, earthquake, flood) means the backups are
> off-site in a different environment. For ordinary backups (magic smoke
> escaping, power glitches causing data errors, cosmic rays, etc.), having
> a home network and backing stuff up to different systems makes a lot of
> sense. We have nightly network backups to alternating systems with large
> disks. A checksum comparison of files and directories provides enough
> confidence that the backups ran correctly. The only other thing to check
> is that you can use the backups to actually restore. A lot of people
> seem to forget that. The actual backup only takes a few minutes over a
> 100MB network. It's a heck of a lot faster than backups to tape.
>
>
>>Digital photo files and such are still going either to DAT or to DVD-RW
>>drive as I am finding video editing and still pics eat drives for lunch.
>>The DVD-RWs work fairly well for most video projects.
>
>
> Yeah, it's amazing how much storage is needed. Ten years ago, someone
> needing a 2 Gig tape for home was "strange". The latest computer I
> bought for home has a Gig of RAM, and a 250 Gig drive. That means I've
> got to buy a couple more drives for the backup servers.... sigh
>
> Old guy
>
No argument. I use a file server box (old PC) with several big drives
to store disk images and other crud I accumulate. In the home environs
I still use tape why because I got a fire sale on media and drives.
Seems they were being trashed for newer bigger better, Long story short
yes they are slow, but my system is patient. I have had incidence to
restore from tape because I was sloppy taking care of my CD..scratched.
  But you are right, days of 4mm tape is about over. While I could, as
a last resort restore completely from tape, I sure wouldn't want to.
But I can still locate Dos 1.0, Gem and a whole batch of old stuff that
I'll never need again. Anyone in the market for a working CP/M system?

Winged

Winged

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