On 3/24/2010 1:28 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Mueller<thomas AT chaschperli DOT ch> 
>  wrote:
>    
>> Am Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:57:18 -0300 schrieb Marcio Vogel Merlone dos
>> Santos:
>>
>>      
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am currently using bacula 2.4.2-1ubuntu4~hardy1, but the web docs
>>> refer to 5.0. Could please someone point to this lazy/buzy admin some
>>> docs which could help me setup a hard-disk as a "perpetual" retention
>>> media for annual backups?
>>>        
>>      
>>> The idea is to make a full backup once or twice a year on a hard-disk,
>>> remove it from the machine, keep its catalog and store it somewhere until
>>> the end of the company. I have to implement this solution until end of
>>> june....
>>>        
>>
>> I wouln't go for harddisks for a long time archive (or do know already
>> "the end of the company" date? ;))
>>
>>      
> Agreed. I would not expect a drive to be readable if you sit it on a
> shelf for 10 years. It probably would not spin up unless you kept it
> in a humidity protected environment.
>    

All media fails in the long run. It is just a matter of how often you 
have to refresh the long term storage.



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