On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 08:18 -0300, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Mike Singer wrote:
> 
> >> Regening the system always results in a few losses.
> > 
> > If you were serious about your data, you wouldn't rely only on HDD. 
> 
> Not sure where you get this from. HDD is IMO one of the best backup media
> around.

Agreed, out of all options a HDD seems to last longest. I usually have
an offline HDD with my data, and a "running" backup online. And of
course, every once in a while I write my data to DVD-Rs and store them
offsite.

However, I think what Mike means is NOT having a backup of some sort is
a bad idea.

Generally, when I start to run out of space on a drive in a major way I
buy a new larger drive, install a fresh OS, copy my data over, and then
store the old drive. In the long run it's probably one of the safest and
cheapest ways of preventing data loss.

TTYL

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