[Ham-Mac] backing-up

[Hans-Christian Becker]

On Jan 7, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Todd Ruby wrote:

> I have read with interest the comments on backing up one's hard  
> drive and the Super Duper back up software looks like the way to  
> go. My remaining question is: if backing up one's primary hard  
> drive is to save data in the event of that drive's failure,  
> wouldn't it make more sense to back up the data onto removable  
> media, ie. CD's? I mean, if you back  up onto an external firewire  
> drive isn't there the potential for this drive to fail at some  
> point in the future as well?

Yes, of course there is. But, the way I see it, the chance that the  
internal drive will go south at the same time as the external drive  
is low enough that I don't worry too much about it. The bigger risk  
is theft of both drives, fire, flood, or some other disaster that  
takes out both drives. If you want to be *really* safe, you need to  
keep backups off-site.
Regarding CD-R(W) and DVD-R(W) media, I have had both types go bad on  
me, so YMMV, as always.
Best wishes,
Hans

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Dr. Hans-Christian Becker
'96 VN750 SM5TLH KG6POK
Uppsala, Sweden