Another question : tape drive

[jack at www.coats.org (Jack Coats)]

I have a friend that wants to start a 'remote backup service'.
He is in Houston TX (far enough from Boston to keep most issues
that effect one place from effecting the other).

what would a remote service be worth to computer hobbiests?

I have priced some services that are so high $$ that you don't want
to use them unless you are making $$ out of it.  (like $100/gig/month
and you get charged bandwidth for restores :(  )

So what would be good? ... JC

On Fri, 9 May 2003 10:15:17 -0400 (EDT), Chris Marget wrote
> 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).
> 
> barring lightning strike (not a problem around here, usually), 
> you're right. the risk of trashing data on *both* disks by human 
> error, evildoer, filesystem corruption is very real...
> 
> The original poster didn't specify, but i assume anyone shopping for 
> a tape drive is interested in archive, not necessarily redundancy.
> 
> there are important distinctions between archive backups and 
> redundant backups.
> 
> 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).
> 
> /chris
> 
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