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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de>
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On 30 Sep 2002, Kai Henningsen wrote:

> One idea we've come up (and surely we're not the only ones) is to use  
> cheap IDE disks for backup, possibly in a cold-swappable insert. As long  
> as you can keep several backups per disk (say using some of those 100GB  
> disks), preferrably even on a different machine, that's fairly cheap.
> 
> If you want to keep daily backups for a week, weekly for a year, and all  
> on separate media, of course, that's *not* cheap with this method, and  
> even DLT or similar prices become acceptable in comparision. But it  
> certainly beats *no* backup!

I do that, but it doesn't make for a storage medium I can easily use on
another system. The cost of DVD writers is coming down, and non-magnetic
media may have some advantages as well. Still, thay're small compared to
disk sizes.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.