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Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 15:52:33 -0500
From: Tony Lawrence <tony@aplawrence.com>
Subject: Backup across the network, differential backups
Why I don't like Differential backups:
/Unixart/diffback.html
Network backups:
While attractive in principle, the time element isn't all that good and
we also lose several important capabilities:
1. the ability to take media off site.
2. the ability to restore completely to a fresh drive from the media
without reinstalling the OS.
3. "deep" backup stretching as far back in time as we need. You can
simulate that with a large enough drive at the receiving end, but then
all your backups are in one mechanical device: if that device fails, you
lose all backup.
Removable media is still the intelligent choice for backup and will
remain so until solid state, non-volatile disk drives are common, and
I'm not even sure if it's a bad idea then.
--
Tony Lawrence
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