On 02/17/2011 02:44 AM, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 20:48 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> You pays your money and you takes your choice. If you want every >> backup of your 10GB home directory to take up another 10GB of space, >> go for it. Most people don't actually want that. They assume (naively >> or not) that the backup medium is itself sufficiently reliable, for >> example I'm doing it on a NAS configured with mirrored disks, which is >> fine for my purposes. YMMV of course. > In my case, I was being diligent and backing up things to one of those > external USB drives, and the external drive turned out to be a lemon, > while the originals are all quite fine. I didn't buy an unusual brand > of disc, either, it was a Seagate. I'd always been impressed by them, > before. On the other hand, every Western Digital drive I had, and > friends, lasted little more than a year or two. > This is why I am buying a second external USB drive that will be on another system (ran out of USB ports on my server, and a powered hub is not worth it) that I will only backup to weekly or monthly and will store in my firebox! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
