Re: Backup

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 20:55 -0500, Alex Launi wrote:
> Who is backing up 600mb of data? Don't forget what year it is. We're
> not in 1993. Optical drives are legacy hardware.

If you want to be sarcastic, you might want to update your analogies.

DVD writers are common and can backup about 9 GB of data, and I have a
drive here that can backup 50GB of data on a single optical disc.

So, yes, backing up on optical media is a requirement, if only for
partial backups (say, "backup my thesis work every week").