[plug] backing up Linux to Windows

[Brad Campbell]

Chris Caston wrote:
>>We used to use 3 120GB hard disks as a rotating (HA! Geddit?) backup set.
>>We picked up a cheap camera hard case, filled the inside with reasonably HD foam with cutouts for 
>>two disks and used that to transport them offsite. 
> 
> 
> This is a very good idea. I often provide a combination of ext HDs and
> dvdrw to customers for inexpensive backup.
> 
> The one problem I sometimes come across though is a good file being
> overwritten by a corrupt file when there is a hardware issue that causes
> strange things to happen.
> 

Our backups were verified by a read-after-write and any odd results E-mailed. No issues were 
encountered over a 2 year period that were not deliberately caused by me injecting faults.

Brad
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