A summary of all of the bad Linux advice in the CentOS thread earlier this month

[Richard Kreiss]

Just my 2 cents on backups. Mark, I agree with you that tapes can be removed from the premises or stored easily in a safe place making them a safer more secure method for backing up. 

On the other hand, backing up to a Nas at gigabit speed allows for less downtime. My suggestion is to do both. 

Now I live in a Windows world and on my own system back up to tape and also use xcopy to an external drive. This allows me to restore files quickly. 

Richard
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On May 21, 2011, at 8:15 PM, Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:

> Debian...the dist -last- to get security updates, usually.  Or were, when
> they were last actually relevant.  Certainly not a distro I'd consider
> enterprise-viable.  That has to be a worse recommendation than Ubuntu--and
> you have no idea how much I hate Ubuntu.
> 
> If backups are not removable, they're not -true- backups, they're hot-swaps.
> 
> And the OSS/BSD rant is a "religious" issue...  I've given up on those.
> The politics behind a distro are something I can easily do without.  The
> question is whether it's a valid technical and financial option, not what
> politics and ideologies are involved.  I'm getting too old for that crap,
> seriously.  You sounded an awful lot like an ESR disciple, and I lost my
> patience for him over half a decade ago.
> 
> mark->
> -- 
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