Backups was Restoring MBR - Solved

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

Steve Seremeth wrote
| ...  In my mind the pros of the HDD solution pretty
| easily outweigh the very few cons.  We have reached the beautiful age
| where disk is cheap (I try to pay $.50 or less per GB of reusable HDD
| storage), which is why many big companies are starting to use SATA
| arrays for backups instead of tape.

Then there's the comment by Linus Torvalds, to the  effect  that  you
shouldn't do backup at all. You should put your stuff online and make
it sufficiently valuable that other people back it up  on  their  own
disks.

(Presumably this was said with tongue at least half  in  cheek.   I'd
guess  that  he  doesn't  actually put his financial records, account
numbers, etc.  online.  ;-)