RE: Somewhat OT: Large backups

[Andy Laurence <andy@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, David Millard wrote:
> In my case I have a second IDE hard drive which I copy the data to
once
> a week or if you have a network copy the data to another drive on
> another machine hard drives are cheap these days and the chances of
two
> drives dying at the same time is unlikely to say the least.

A word of warning - I lost 3 HDDs and a motherboard after a power spike
last year.  It can happen.  Before you ask, yes the server was
plugged 
into a power surge strip.  That reminds me, I must put in a claim!

Andy
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