From: Bob Bashford (olderman_at_pipeline.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 18:14:13 EST
At 12:25 PM 02/12/01 -1000, David Ross wrote:
>There are, of course, two kinds of disasters: software disasters (e.g.,
>something hoses a Windows install)
>and hardware disasters. The former are much more frequent in my experience,
>and for these cases a backup onto the
>*same drive* is perfectly reasonable.
"Same drive" backup won't help you if the office burns down or a
sprinkler system hoses the machine or a burglar takes it home with him ...
or a virus wipes the disk clean ...
I don't consider a backup "real" unless I can (and do) take it
from the office to the house ... or to a bank safe deposit box ... or
somewhere that's a few miles away from the data being backed up ... Think
how long it'd take to recreate (if possible) those years of work sitting on
your hard drive ....
Regards, Bob Bashford
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