#UNIX ?
Don:
Perhaps I'm more on the paranoid side than you are. I have 2 200meg drives
in my machine , and I have them divided up into 6 40meg partitions, and a
60 meg partition (my TMP directory), and a 100 meg Mac partition. The
reason I keep most of my partitions at 40 megs is so that I can easily
keep a copy of the partition on SyQuest cartridges (older 44 meg ones).
Basically I hackup to a 250meg tape about twice a week, and once a week I
backup to the SyQuest cartridges. While it takes slightly longer to backup
to the SyQuests, and isn't as automatic, it's a real handy backup, as I
can just pop in the cartridge, and the drive is there, I can use it as the
partition it's backing up if I have to, try that with a tape!
I think I've gotten this paranoid about backups from 2 places, my brother
is ALWAYS talking about loosing data (he's the network manager at MIT, and
specializes in computer network security – 'Network Police' – as he's
called himself), and also, my first HD controller on my first Amiga must
have been bad or something, cause it crashed at least once a week,
sometimes as many as 3 times a week!
And it's always better to be safe than sorry. (or so they say).
// -Mike Schiller
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