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Home and Business LANs
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can backup 600+MB, | |
easy backup operation, like another hard drive (see below) | |
are currently the most popular. | |
provide an excellent means for backing up critical data. |
BUT
confuse many people with CDR versus CDRW technology | |
can be very slow to format | |
cannot backup more than 2 GB drives due to the sheer number of formatted CDs required. |
Tape Drives
Are good for:
provide the most thorough backup |
BUT
drives are expensive | |
media (tapes) are expensive | |
extremely slow in backing up | |
extremely slow for recovering lost data | |
eat tapes! | |
incompatible media between tape drive vendors | |
tape mysteriously self destruct (OOPS! Lost all your backup data) |
Spare Hard Drives
Are good for:
can potentially, backup any amount of GB | |
easy backup operation, just copy other hard drive | |
provide an excellent means for backing up large amounts of critical data. |
BUT
confuse some people with finding files to backup | |
cannot backup the operating system (without special means) |