Backups was Restoring MBR - Solved

[Jack Coats]

I found a place to get USB-2 boxen for disk drives for $30/ea delivered.
I'm starting to think that this may be a good thing for spare drives.
Now put some of them behind a Linksys NAS head for about $100 and you have a 
medium to low performance disk farm cheap.  And for a backup, plug in another 
disk and mirror it, then unplug it to put it offline.

I used the service listed below for my data.  I only backup things like 
Quicken files, my resume, tax data, etc.  I figure the rest can be rebuilt 
without much loss. ... I actually had to do that, while I was still using 
the '30 day free home trial' and it worked well for me. (If some folks would 
give it a try - no credit card needed unless you keep the service - I would 
like some feedback from others!)

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu>
To: <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:15:08 UTC
Subject: Re: Backups was Restoring MBR - Solved

> Steve Seremeth wrote
> | ...  In my mind the pros of the HDD solution pretty
> | easily outweigh the very few cons.  We have reached the beautiful age
> | where disk is cheap (I try to pay $.50 or less per GB of reusable HDD
> | storage), which is why many big companies are starting to use SATA
> | arrays for backups instead of tape.
> 
> Then there's the comment by Linus Torvalds, to the  effect  that  you
> shouldn't do backup at all. You should put your stuff online and make
> it sufficiently valuable that other people back it up  on  their  own
> disks.
> 
> (Presumably this was said with tongue at least half  in  cheek.   I'd
> guess  that  he  doesn't  actually put his financial records, account
> numbers, etc.  online.  ;-)
> 
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