TR> If I was a `sysop'...or had a lot of business material on a computer
TR> system I'd probably be doing the `backup' thing too.
TR> 
TR> The only things I do with my equipment, especially now I'm retired,
TR> doesn't call for all that. I don't keep storage directories on the main
TR> setup, I keep them on thumb drives. And I copy the main thumb drive to a
TR> `backup' thumb drive every so often just in case.

My obsession with good backups started at a young age.  Around 14 years old
when I had put off buying one of those "tape backup drives"
because I didn't want to spend the $300 or so for it at the time.  After I
had my first incident when I lost many source code mods I wrote, I would
have play three times that to have not lost that data.  Needless to say, I
ordered the backup drive the next day - but the damage had been done.

Back when I had screwed up the partition on my RAID5 array (21TB), I almost
had a heart attack but was able to recover the partition.  I went out and
bought several 6TB drives to use as temporary storage for all "future
partition work".

I don't back everything up, but what doesn't get backed up is at least a
RAID-5 array.  It isn't easy being a data hoarder..

- Mark

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