On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:08:13PM -0500, Matt Morgan wrote: > > This is for a very small business, with employees who aren't in the > office a lot. The idea was to change the tape weekly, but write > differentials to it 6 nights a week, and a full backup once a week (or > something like that). The tapes are easily big enough to hold that > much, and changing them more often would be very expensive. Another reason to not do this is that if the tape fails later in the week, you lose all of that tape's backups. This makes restoration problematic. When designing backup systems, *think* *failure* *mode*. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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