Backups

[uriah heep]

On 8/8/07, Björn Seifert <bjoern.seifert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Depending on how often you backup, because flash drives have a limited
> > > number of write cycles.
> >
> > Yeah, but isn't that usually figured in terms of thousands (or tens of
> > thousands)?  Which makes it considerably more reusable than a CD-RW!
> >
> > I'd think that a flash drive would tend to make an excellent backup
> medium,
> > since backup is - with best practice - a low frequency task.
>
> And if you use a backup with diffs like Matthew said in the now called
> "Backup part 2"-thread, there won't be much sectors rewritten every
> time you backup because you keep the old versions and only add things
> that changed since the last backup.
>
> Björn
>
> Any one with questions re flash drives may wish to visit the following URL

http://www.getusb.info/what-is-the-life-cycle-of-a-usb-flash-drive

Uriah
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