On 01/04/08 12:24, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Fri January 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:So I wasn't trying to denigrate your 7GB of important data, but to express that, in today's world, tape would be a radically cost- inefficient means of storing only 7GB.so, what would be a good method..say for instance MY system. my /home is 164 Gb, with 50 Gb free, so I've used 110 Gb. Right now I do the rsync to a 500Gb Mybook USB drive. But I don't keep the drive connected, so I don't do it often enough..
Discipline.It took a near disaster at our company for Upper Management to go from "daily database backups are vital" being an easily-bypassed slogan to actual etched-in-stone policy.
So, how much of that 114GB is Really Important, important enough to spend regular time, effort & money to ensure it's survival?
-- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate vegetables!" unknown