[mythtv-users] Lost my OS hard drive (also ran)

[David Brodbeck]

Brian Wood wrote:
> In the "Old Days" we used tape or removable drive cartridges for backup, if 
> the drive failed the media would simply be put into another drive.

Assuming it didn't eat the tape in the process. ;)

> But today tape systems with enough capacity to backup most people's data are 
> out of reach economically for most home users.
> 
> Today the most economical way to back up is to another hard drive(s), whether 
> that be local or somewhere out on the net.

It's also faster.

My experience with tape has always been that it's slow, hard to manage, 
and not very reliable.  Disk-to-disk backup is, in my experience, a big 
win unless you need to ship backups off-site.