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On Sunday 16 November 2008 14:36:22 William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> I wouldnt call it fair trade, rather "its working now and we'll make it |
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> better it eventually." |
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> I agree, backups should be just that - protection from mistakes/lost |
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> data. However this is from someone who has the archives mounted via nfs |
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> and can browse via filemanager an retrieve files that way via a desktop. |
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> Currently I have my freeruner mobile phone, mythtv critical files and a |
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> number of systems such as laptops backed up this way and its been very |
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> reliable and useful, both as automatic/unattended and manually run. |
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OK I see where you are coming from. |
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When you say backup/restore to me, I think in terms of what I'm used to - |
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massive tape archives holding many multi-TB of data for thousands of hosts. |
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What you are describing is indeed a backup, but in my world I'd probably call |
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it something else. |
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Perhaps I should have been more explicit and said "Disaster Recovery Archival |
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Backup" instead of "backup"... :-) |
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