Alan B. Pearce wrote:

>>Alan, well obviously the server would have a swappable HD
>>(haven't you been following the conversation?).
> 
> Hmm, it wasn't 'obvious' to me from that particular conversation - and a
> swappable HD is only of use if someone is there to remove it immediately
> the backup is finished, else my fire scenario is still an incident
> waiting to happen and destroy the backup before it is safe.

Which probably goes for all media, so it's not really particular to hard
disks. The only thing that is not affected by this is a backup over the net
(if you have the pipe for your data). And even then, you might lose a whole
day if the fire starts while the backup is running. 

In the end, you need to see where your odds are. Nothing is 100% safe, and
how many % is safe enough is everybody's own decision.

Gerhard

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