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In Reply to: They didn't listen posted by J.Mac on March 23, 2007 at 04:24:44:
Where does your "100,000" come from, and when you say "industry trend" can you actually cite your sources?Hmm, I don't recall Gartner, or Forrester, or anyone citing off line hard disk backups as a "trend". I can definitely say it's not a "trend" amongst the Fortune 500.
And if you speak to storage vendors like EMC or IBM, they definitely do NOT recommend that you keep hard disks in "storage", even if they are temperature and humidity controlled (or under "armed guard"). If you do want to use hard disks for secondary storage, keep them online - at least you will *know* when they fail.
As for my concerns being "off base", all I'm pointing out is that hard disks don't last forever, offline or online. If you truly value your data, you need to to take that into account. If you don't, hey, I don't care.
"vettracer"'s "solution" of asking his/her mother to fire up his/her backup hard disk every now and then is not a bad one (provided she actually does it, and does a full hard disk scan each time). The important difference between this strategy and his/her previous strategy (just keeping it in a drawer), is that he/she will *know* when it fails, and take appropriate action (buy a replacement).
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- It's easy to say "industry trend" or make up statistics - Christine Tham 15:13:05 03/23/07 (0)
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