[Leaplist] Re: Refurbished Hard Drive

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday 03 February 2010 13:57:32 Kevin Korb wrote:
> A second location would certainly be nice but I just don't have that
> available.
> 
> My solution for taking backups offline is the simplest possible.  I shut
> the backup computer off when I am not using it.

Here are the problems with not having a secondary:

1) Your backup server suffers an irretrievable disk crash. Since I'm sure you 
raided your server to the max, this isn't a problem for you.

2) A robber breaks into your house and steals everything, including your 
backup server. It would be nice to have an offsite backup.

3) A hurricane blows your house down. It would be nice to have an offsite 
backup. Also, if you have to evacuate and have little room in your car or 
motorcycle, you can simply grab your backup hard disk or backup DVDs, pocket 
them, and hit the road. This actually happened to me January 17, 1994, when my 
family and I lived in Reseda, California 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_earthquake). I grabbed my backup 
tapes, wife and 8 month old triplets and headed north until the shaking 
stopped 200 miles from LA. The Red Cross classified our neighborhood as 
"destroyed." We were 6 city blocks from the epicenter.

Turns out I didn't need the tapes -- my Gateway Computer took a licking and 
kept on ticking.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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