On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 00:59, James Wilkinson wrote: > John Thompson wrote: > That tends to rule out > replacing tapes with IDE disks. Besides, it's not clear enough what > happens if you unplug a bunch of hard disks and store them in a safe for > ten years. Yes.. The term for is is thermal decay and it's projected for at least 5 years. So, make a backup of the backup every 5 years? -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 10:27:13 up 1:21, 8 users, load average: 3.12, 2.63, 2.05
