Re: Best way to duplicate HDs
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 23:40, Jason Lim wrote:
> Except that I've pointed out already that we're specifically NOT looking
> at a live RAID solution. This is a backup drive that is suppose to be
> synced every 12 hours or 24 hours.
>
> The idea being that if there is a virus, a cracker, or hardware
> malfunction
And if you discover this within 12 hours... Most times you won't.
> then the backup drives can be immediately pulled out and
> inserted into a backup computer, and switch on to provide immediate
> restoration of services (with data up to 12 hours old, but better than
> having up-to-date information that may be corrupted or "cracked" versions
> of programs).
If the drive is in the cracked machine then it should not be trusted. If a
drive is in a machine that has hardware damage then there's no guarantee
it'll still have data on it...
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