On 12.3.2012 01:37, Mark LaPierre wrote: > Tape, and tape drives, have a bad reputation. They are difficult and > time consuming to verify. Harddisks have a bad reputation too. They fail regulary. Anyway, I would not feel comfortable about backing up data residing on a harddisk to another harddisk. I believe that a backup media has to provide different characteristics than the original media. An incident that harms original should not harm the backup. What about if a firmware bug destroys all data on day XXX on all harddisks ? Well, extra paranoid maybe and of course I have not thought of all possible things that *could* happen. -- Kind Regards, Markus Falb -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 307 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120313/2fec71df/attachment-0005.sig>