On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 00:29:11 +0100
Mike Harrison <mike@WHITEWING.CO.UK> wrote:

> The one most important thing for absolutely any backup system - it MUST be easy and hassle-free to
> do. If it isn't, you won't bother doing it as often as you should.
>
> That's why I like high capacity tape (i.e all the data on one piece of media) - just kick it off at
> the end of the day, or before lunch, and it's done by the time you next want to use the PC.
> Don't bother with incrementals - way too much hassle (see start of this message...!). Back up
> everything, every time.

I absolutely agree. But the original post had a requirement to be free.

> From my experience, the vast majority of times I've needed to access backed up data it's when I've
> accidentally overwritten a file and need to look at the old version.

That is why I use cvs.

<snip>

david

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