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Re: opinions please: auto-backup to CDRW



Jens Gecius <jens@gecius.de> writes:

> You're probably better off taking a "small" hd, around 6-10GB, and
> make nightly incremental, weekly and monthly full backups on that
> special purpose hd. The hd should be mounted ro to prevent accidential
> deletion and the like.

One advantage of removable media  is that if something happens to your
box (e.g. it gets stolen, goes up in flames, etc.) you don't lose your
backups. 

-chris



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