The method of backup you are using would seem to be a little flawed. Have you considered what would happen if you accidentally deleted an important file and didn't discover that for a couple of days? What happens if your backup media fails to restore as sometimes can happen? How would your backup cope with these scenarios. Using one backup media is the next best thing to not having a backup at all. We use 9 medias, Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri1 Fri2 .. Fri5 the Friday media are for each week of the month. In all you have a full months backup which should be reasonably bullet-proof. If one day fails this is not as much of a tragedy
Mike -----Original Message----- From: Barry L. Kline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 3 April 2002 06:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: using cdrecord to backup files. Vikram Patel wrote: > > I want to use cdrecord to do daily backups. i am running into a > small snag. I have to delete the cd before i can write to it. What > are the options for cdrecord to overwrite in one command. right now > i have created a script to first delete all the data on cd and then > write. This script is being executed via cron job. My main concern > is if for some reason the cdwrite fails. I have deleted my previous > days backup. Then would be left with no backup. > > Any help is appreciated. > > thnx > > > > Vikram Patel Add blank=fast to the command line Barry _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list This mail was processed by Mail essentials for Exchange/SMTP, the email security & management gateway. Mail essentials adds content checking, email encryption, anti spam, anti virus, attachment compression, personalised auto responders, archiving and more to your Microsoft Exchange Server or SMTP mail server. For more information visit http://www.mailessentials.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
