On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 15:33 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > Now that I think about it, I like it. Hard drive as main backup for > everything, extra copy of critical files on DVD for portability. This > could both reduce overall backup costs and also have the added > advantage that I could _boot_ from such an hard drive and "just keep > working" if the one inside the case crashes, right? I wouldn't recommend that. If whatever trashed the original happens again, you'd be doing it to your back up. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.