Ron Johnson wrote:
> crotchety old geezers insist upon off-site, *off-line* backups. rsync to
> a neighboring machine just does not cut it...
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8049780.stm
> "Some have asked whether or not we had back-ups. Yes, we
> dutifully backed up our servers every day. Unfortunately,
> we backed up the servers between our two servers.
>
> "The hacker took out both servers, destroying our ability to
> use one or the other back-up to remedy the situation."
>
I guess that makes me a crotchety old IR geezer. :) I've been
working on a project that's doing exactly that at work. Currently we
have 500GB of data that is on our SAN and the only backup is tapes
stored in the same building. *sigh*
J
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