Bonus points for backing up; massive number of negative points for deleting the backup as hard drives know when you do this and will fail in fairly short order.
Its also not a very good backup if you're relying on another spinning hard drive to store the data! Well, not unless its actually a gaggle of disks at a suitable RAID level (eg a StorEdge 3511FC).
My backups are currently on external hard disks (although I do send the occaisonal CD of photo raws to assistants in another town). One is physically disconnected when not in use, the other is a bit more awkward to get at and I've not yet got into the habit of disconnecting it (so it's only unmounted when not in use). Ought to.
It would be nice to have a less complex mechanism in the backup medium, but it's hard to see what other than hard disks can produce a comparably good capacity:price ratio (at least at the kind of prices I'm prepared to pay).
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Date: 2006-02-03 01:40 am (UTC)Its also not a very good backup if you're relying on another spinning hard drive to store the data! Well, not unless its actually a gaggle of disks at a suitable RAID level (eg a StorEdge 3511FC).
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Date: 2006-02-03 11:49 am (UTC)My backups are currently on external hard disks (although I do send the occaisonal CD of photo raws to assistants in another town). One is physically disconnected when not in use, the other is a bit more awkward to get at and I've not yet got into the habit of disconnecting it (so it's only unmounted when not in use). Ought to.
It would be nice to have a less complex mechanism in the backup medium, but it's hard to see what other than hard disks can produce a comparably good capacity:price ratio (at least at the kind of prices I'm prepared to pay).