Originally Posted by
ohliuw
I meant to say you should always have 2 copies of your important data regardless of the technology worked. A friend of mine put all his photos on his external hdd only. He thought he was doing backup. No need to tell you the reminder of the story
Yup, that Murphy fellow seems to like eggs only when they are in one basket.
Originally Posted by
ohliuw
At work, we backup to SAN (which is fully redundant), then to a backup SAN (which is also fully redundant), and then to tapes. Funny enough, when it comes to restore, we always have issues. We joke that we are just the backup department, the restore department is elsewhere
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I remember hearing about one company which has excellent back up plan except the Friday night sys-op forgot to close the door to the fireproof safe where the backup tapes are kept.