[TriLUG] Small business server setup

[Dan Monjar]

--On Monday, December 01, 2003 10:08:18 AM -0500 Ryan Leathers 
<ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com> wrote:

> These days, $/MB, hard drives can be as cheap as tapes.
> There are obvious pros and cons for each.
> Personally I like the virtues of a hard drive enough to overlook its
> cons as a backup media.  I pair HD backup with DVD burning in my
> operation for a nice mix of speed and reliability.

True, and as you say there is pros and cons to each situation.  But the 
most important thing is to get the stuff offsite and to establish a 
rotation of media.  The Disaster Recovery people have cute TLAs for it but 
it comes down to 'How long can you afford to be down?' and 'How much data 
can you afford to lose?'.

-- 
Dan
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