Wayne writes:

> > Disc is a relatively inexpensive price to pay nowadays...
>
>  I read an interesting post elsewhere recently about disc1-to-disc2 type
>  backup.  Disc2 becomes your backup 'media' and you unplug it and put it on
>  the shelf / send it offsite etc.  Interesting concept.  Has to be faster
>  tape.  :RESTOREs could be quick quick as well... just unplug disc1 and plug
>  in disc2!

Heck, whole HP3000's are cheap enough nowadays to use as backup devices. The
last Series 927, unlimited number of users, MPE/iX 6.0 machine I bought cost
us all of $200 (shipping was actually more expensive).

And that's exactly what we do. We've implemented simple MPE job scripts to do
nightly store-to-disc delta backups on our primary machines, which are then
MPE-to-MPE FTP'ed to twin HP3000's three buildings away, where they're
unpacked and restored onto the twins. This provides us with instantaneous
availablity if anything should ever happen to the primary machines and has
made the backup process unbelievably simple and reliable.

Wirt Atmar

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