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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: is it OK to keep an optical cartridge running 24 hours a day?
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Date: 13 Aug 90 13:03:28 GMT
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In article <1990Aug13.062107.28413@athena.mit.edu> simsong@athena.mit.edu (Simson L. Garfinkel) writes:
>I strongly recommend against leaving your backup cartridge inside your cube.

>There are a lot of good reasons to make a backup beyond "operator error"
>and "hardware failure."  Most of those reasons require that you take
>the backups to another physical location.

Backups have to be convenient; otherwise they don't get done.  Leaving
ONE OF your backup od's in is a great way to make them convenient.

Take the OTHER somewhere else, and swap the two weekly, and you have
almost the best of both worlds.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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