On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Folderol <folderol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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, Very sorry for you. Very glad I've never had to suffer the fire offense. That said I tar up all of the source code for my stock trading strategies and scp them to a machine in another state 3 times a week. I've got 50GB of data off site at this point. As I'm in California and scheduled to sink into the Pacific in 2012 I figured anything west of the San Andreas fault wasn't a good idea... I was burglarized once. They took my 1937 Gibson Super 400 and a Gibson RD Artist. Those, unfortunately, are very had to back up... - Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
