Re: Tape/DVD Backup Suggestions? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Þórhallur Hálfdánarson
Subject Re: Tape/DVD Backup Suggestions?
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Msg-id 20020718113734.B4670@margmidlun.is
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In response to Re: Tape/DVD Backup Suggestions?  (Nathan Mueller <nate@cs.wisc.edu>)
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Hi

-*- Nathan Mueller <nate@cs.wisc.edu> [ 2002-07-18 00:18 ]:
> You won't lose data from disk if you use RAID.

Well... rm, anyone ? :)

RAID protects you from drive failures, sure, but not many other factors such as human mistake, software errors,
compromisedbox etc. 

I personally do a local pg_dump daily, and the entire machines are then backup up by Tivoli Storage Manager.


Regards,
Tolli

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