Backup media - time to move on from DVDs?

Alastair Stevens alspnost at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 23:55:50 CET 2009


2009/12/8 Tom Ellis <tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk>:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 07:54:07PM +0000, Alastair Stevens wrote:
>>  Am I missing anything?
>
> Why not a small number of removeable hard disks, some proportion of which
> you store offsite?

Seems like an expensive option - but perhaps a more reliable one.  I
guess one issue with memory cards is speed - what's a realistic write
speed?  I've just not really tested them in anger yet, but writing
10-15GB of data to one might take a while...?

AL

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