It strikes me...

[Lord Kalthorn]

Makes sense! Always useful to have a backup; as Gandhi Used to say -

'I can see that in the future; everybody will laugh at me, everybody will think I was mad, and everybody will need a backup of their things,'

 

[David Lindon]

Can never have too many backups!

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

No! I don't like to have less than 2 Hard Drives on my Computer so that I can put my Files (which are in a very neat order!) on my D: Drive and Programs and Windows on the C: Drive! Then; when and if I re-fromat I can keep my 30Gb of Files (Pictures, Videos, Movies, CD Images, DVD Images, Games Images, Documents, etc etc and so on) so I don't need to physically back it up!

How do you do your Sever Backups? Tape Drives are out now aren't they? Must have Hundreds of Gigabytes on a Server!

 

[David Lindon]

We still run tape drives. Nope, they are still in fashion. Most servers use tapes now.

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

Oh! Cool - they can hold a lot of stuff if I remmember rightly! I cannot remember whether they can hold more than a DVD (especially the 9.6Gb ones) but still they must be more hardy and reliable than DVDs.

 

[David Lindon]

Mine holds 20GB and is run on a schedule to run everyday on a differet tape.

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

Oh, cool - I had an old tape drive once; didn't work but it looked pretty cool; I thought they were out - but obviosuly not!

 

[David Lindon]

They will stay in untill another system comes out that is faster/an or holds more. I get about 50mB/minute on mine. What is the speed for DVDs?

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

I'm not too sure about the speed of DVD Writing - it doesn't say - but I think it is practically if not faster than that. But you'll never get 20Gb on a DVD! DVDs are also much easier to destroy accidentially.

 

[David Lindon]

Yeah. That is why I am sticking to tapes!