Backups

Last night's topic at the TLUG meeting was backups. I'm not a system administrator so I'm always interested in picking up some tricks from the professionals. The presenter was Robert Brockway who is an experienced system administrator so there was good chance of learning a few things.

Robert covered tape backups of course, but it was interesting that he actually prefers disks for most situations. Ultimately, it depends on how much data you need to back up and more importantly, how valuable it is, but it helps to know a pro would recommend disks as a good solution. However, he emphasised that no matter what you use, if you don't have an off site backup, a disaster will make all your efforts meaningless.