Backups - was Re: 8mm data cartridges

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue May 8 13:23:17 CDT 2007


Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> Honestly how much of the GBs of files on your hard drive is user 
>> generated and irreplaceable and how much is just OS/App bloat along
>> with internet downloads?
> 
> Part of my gigs and gigs is digital photographs going back to 1996 of
>  places and buildings in Antarctica that aren't there any more.  I 
> would consider that irreplaceable.  I do have multiple copies on 
> multiple (types of) media.

Indeed, I have a 2TB array here which is about 2/3 full, and contains no
application, game or OS binary code at all.  There's some source code in 
there and a couple of FTP mirrors, but most of it is data of various kinds.

Peace...  Sridhar


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