[H-GEN] Assistance Required

[Robert Brockway]

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On 27 Mar 2002, Arjen Lentz wrote:

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 22:13, Jason Henry Parker wrote:
> >  * If it works, buy a sodding tape drive already.  Two if possible.
> 
> Or burn CDs. For a business, that can be nicer; creates a nice archive
> that lasts for a while.

Hi Arjen.  My problem with CDs as backups is recovery time.  How much time
does it take to restore 30Gb off 660Mb CDs?  How messy is it?  How much
fun it is while the entire company is sitting around waiting for you to
finish because someone trounced the fileserver?  Fun fun fun :)

I also concur with the earlier post on recovery companies.  Costly but
they exist for just this sort of situation.
Cheers,
	-Rob

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