Practicality of backing up huge hard drives (was Re: [mythtv-users] Dieing Hard Drive)

[Ron Johnson]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 16:28 +0100, Johannes Becker wrote:
> My experiance with HD backup is not so good. Usually you have only one
> drive that holds one backup (maybe two). But what can happen is that a
> disk goes down slowly and has failures that you copy to your backup
> before you notice that. The HD backup is not helping then, because you
> only have the broken copy there.
> I prefer tapes (actually a DLT tape library from ebay) and keep
> several instances. Even so that means that I have many tapes laying
> around...

How much did you pay for it?

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