Re: Backup media; comments would be appreciated.

From: Travis Casey (efindel_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 12/27/03 

Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:39:05 GMT

Huge wrote:
> Travis Casey <efindel@earthlink.net> writes:
>>Al Dykes wrote:

>>> Are you backing up for archival purposes or just crash recovery ?
>>
>>These days, a second hard drive can be a very good backup medium, if
>>you're
>>mostly looking for crash recovery. Mirroring is one way to do it...
>
> Mirroring is useless for backups.
>
> rm -rf /usr/local/bin
>
> Ooops! Now get that back from your mirror.

Sorry; I should have said "if you're only looking for crash recovery". Of
course, real backups of some sort of much better for "bonehead error"
recovery -- and, if you'd looked farther on in my message, I suggested
another way of using a second hard drive which *does* allow recovery from
such errors. 

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