On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:12:52 -0700 Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Ivan Tarozzi <itarozzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Il giorno sab, 11/09/2010 alle 15.12 +0200, Kjetil S. Matheussen ha > > scritto: > > [cut] > > > >> > True, but how do you backup your stuff? > >> > >> Oh, I don't. :-) When using plain ext2/3/4 file systems you > >> receive hints (strange pauses, eventually a random file is > >> corrupted) that something is wrong long before everything is lost. > >> I've never lost anything important, but have replaced > >> my HD many times. > >> > > > > I think you are very lucky :) > > Few month ago my mediacenter broke the HD (ext3) and without backups i > > lost serveral Gig of data :( > > > > Now I use a RAID1 and it saved me once (because power supply problem in > > 1 of the disk). > > And now is simple tu install a software raid in a Linux box. > > > > Another situation where (incremental) backup is important is when you > > make a change of a project and you want to return to previous version. > > > > So I think RAID1 + backup is the best choice :) > > > > Ivan > > +++++ actual physical backups. > > No disk system is enough. Not journals on single disks. Not RAID. Not > RAID with journals. Backups are key, and maybe MORE important than > backups is actually testing that restoring from backups actually > works. It's good to keep one junkie old computer around and make sure > that backups can be restored on a machine that's never seen them. In > the last 15 or 20 years I've lost 3 machines to catastrophic failure. > Making sure I had restorable backups was key to the data I saved and > key to the data I lost. > > RAID for dummies like me cannot get much easier than mdadm. > > - Mark If you've ever been unfortunate enough to have a house fire or burglary - I've had both :( - you'll also appreciate the wisdom of keeping a copy of your really important stuff off-site. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
