On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Seann Clark
>
><nombrandue AT tsukinokage DOT net> wrote:
>> The other alternative I am looking into is getting a large external case
>> and cramming it full of 1TB hard drives and using that as backup, but I
>> would like a tape system that works well.
>
>This option is worth considering.  HD's have many fewer moving parts
>than tapes/drives.  Even if the "critical failure" rate is similar,
>the "annoying failure" rate of tape drives is much higher.  Which is
>to say, they require a lot more fiddling.
>
>Dustin

I'll back Dustin up on this one.  Switching to a hard drive got rid of 99.9% 
of by backup problems.  It Just Works(TM).

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