On 14 Jan 2021 11:43:24 GMT
TimS  wrote:

> Disk space may be cheap, but then you have to manage it. And remember -
> if you make backup/restore complicated then noddy users won't do it.

 You can make it as easy as you like and they still won't. A long
time ago I set up a system for a customer with an overnight backup schedule
and prepared a box of QIC tapes labelled Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Fri, Fri
and left instructions to change the tape daily and keep all but one of the
Fri tapes offsite cycling them round each week. Many months later the hrd
disc failed during the nightly backup so after replacing the drive and
finding the backup corrupt I asked for the previous night's tape - it
emerged that they had *never* changed the tape.

 We all learned something that day.

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