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/chris commented: | On Fri, 9 May 2003, Jerry Feldman wrote: | > My strategy is | > that 2 hard drives are not going to crash simultaneously (which is not a | > 100% valid assumption). ... | the best situation is to have both a RAID setup in the computer AND a bunch of | disks/tapes on the shelf (somewhere far far away). Then there's Linus Torvald's comment that the best approach is to make your stuff so valuable that other people volunteer to back it up on their machines. While this does minimize his hardware and time for making backups, it seems to have imposed a serious cost: all the time that he's sunk into coordinating the distributed archive of his files.
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