> On the other side, tapes are nice and portable, and therefore are very > good for off-site storage. Of course, hard disks can be nicely > portable, especially if you use FireWire or USB enclosures. how much trouble do you have with plugging/unplugging your USB device? we've got a firewire drive here that we use for portable storage; it's very handy (went to the last installfest with 80+GB of linux distros on it); but on my laptop it requires some loading/unloading of modules and issuing some mount commands before it's ready to go. I suppose a lot of that could be automated with a 'hotplug' tool, but I have yet to learn how that thing works, and I'm still a bit leery of trusting that for important company data. it's a great way for geeks to do backups; but you can teach an idiot to swap tapes (I have to teach clients how to swap tapes in their servers), swapping hard drives is somewhat more complex and dicey. Carl Soderstrom. -- Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list