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Posted by George Peatty on 10/27/06 16:32
In article <12k2ilota52oqea@corp.supernews.com>, Doug Jacobs says...
>> Unless you're storing backup copies of all your movie DVDs, I'd say 9 GB is
>> fine for storage in the near term. I have about 35 GB of MP3s that fit
>> nicely onto about 10 DVDRWs, and I don't feel cramped for storage capacity.
>> And, outside of some commercial backup enterprise, or the wish to copy
>> movies, I doubt that many people have backup needs as large as mine.
>I was thinking more along the lines of disaster recovery for your PC's
>entire HDD.
>Even using dual-layered DVDs, you'll need about a dozen discs per 100GB.
>Even laptops come with more space than that nowadays.
I have three PCs, and one of the smartest things I ever did was to network them.
Each PC has a drive image of the other two, so if I lose a hard drive, I can
restore from backup after replacing the drive. Since coming up with this backup
solution, I've had very little need to burn DVDs.
>However, if you're a business, you'll definitely be interested in doing a
>complete backup of your server's HDD not just for offsite archive purposes,
>but also for disaster recovery. It's going to be much faster to restore
>from backup vs. freshly installing the OS, patches, applications and
>settings - and you'll still have to recover your documents/data.
I am a government employee, and we use tape backups to backup our servers, with
backup schedules that run daily, weekly, and monthly. We don't use DVDs. I
certainly agree that for a commercial enterprise of any size, a DVD backup is
not a viable solution.
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