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Re: backup devices -- removable harddisks

Curt Sampson (cjs@portal.ca)
Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:05:24 -0700 (PDT)

On 4 Aug 1998, Brian Edmonds wrote:

> Kevin Chu <kevin@portal.ca> writes:
> > What do other people do? Does my ISP never back up? Curt?!
>
> Whatever Portal does is hopefully out of your price range.

Actually, we cheap out and use a few DAT drives. Even so, a good
fast DAT drive is going to set you back a thousand dollars or more.
Proper backup is probably the biggest cost in running a server.

For my personal machines I generally just shove in an old, slow
but large drive, and dump | gzip to files on it. There's no offsite
with this arrangement, so I keep a few critical things (PGP keys,
basically) on floppies elsewhere.

cjs

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