Watch your backup

Watch your backup - True: Yes it's true. Even the most expensive backup solutions produce about a 60-70% restoration sucess rate. Over the years, there have been critical file resotration failures, incomplete backups with no error verifications, and lots and lots of 'finger-pointing' at IT staff. The plain fact is that Tape-based backup are not reliable enough to be depended on for critical data. Colleagues, as well as myself have at times opted for more simple systems, such as a 'real file' backups to backup drives, burning DVD backups and the like. These in my 15 years of expreience have been the ONLY 100% trustworthy solutions. The Tape method belongs to another era, not ours.

J. Leahy; Posted by: jbleahy Posted on: 01/28/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Your kidding Right? langekg_z | 01/29/04

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