Kevin Windham wrote:
On Jul 1, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Brian F. Opitz wrote:
Please. This has been
discussed so many times before on this list that we don't need to hear
it anymore. Time Machine is designed for the home user.
Period. To use it in a mission-critical, production, environment is
simply lunacy. Would you risk your paycheck on it? I know I wouldn't.
Lunacy? I think you may have gone just a bit overboard. Time
Machine works quite well for what it does. As long as you understand
how it works I think it's fine if you want to use it. It's just another
option for backup. May not be the best option for all situations, but
it is very helpful in many circumstances. I've used it, and it's worked
well for several of my clients.
Also, if I knew my job was actually at risk if a backup failed,
I wouldn't rely on a single piece of technology. If it were that
important I think I would have multiple systems in place to provide
some redundancy.
Kevin
Yes, Time Machine does quite well for what it was designed for. The
home user. If you were in a bind -D2D RAID down and tape drive on the
fritz and BU software hosed in an update- then maybe, as a last resort,
I'd turn to TM for a backup solution. But for any mission-critical,
money-making, data that has to backed up and restored and expected to
work after a problem, reliably, no.
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