> On Thu September 10 2020 15:49:21 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via tde-users wrote: > > Sage advice. Advice I follow with redundancy. > > I back up important stuff to a "backups" directory, then /home to another > > internal drive, which is raided with another. Then to 2 external drives. > > > > I also make DVD backups. > > > > I lost data once, about 22 years ago. I had to start from scratch. Never > > again. > > I can't afford the time for DVD backups these days but a lot of > our stuff is mirrored, plus sets of three rotating hard drive > backups via rsync over ssh. Your top risk factor then is human > error. > > An unfortunate young lady sysadmin in our group circa 1980 > mistyped a tar-pipe-tar disk-to-disk backup command pipeline > and with the pipe buffer then being a fixed 4KB managed to > truncate every file on the server to 4KB. Took her several > days to reinstall and reconfigure and recover from the weekly > tape backup but she succeeded. > > I once accidentally deleted the wrong LVM volume group when > reorganizing our backup system. After a screw-up like that > it's important not to thrash around and possibly corrupt any > deleted data. After much studying and heartburn vgcfgrestore > fixed things perfectly in an instant. > > --Mike > _______________________________________________ HUMANS? Mike, you need to spray for those. Sounds like you have a good setup. Me, however, I'm old fashioned. I don't believe in anything other than local backups drives (some redudants are stored off site for safety) and DVDs. I have a MASSIVE collection of DVDs books spanning back to 1995. I just popped one in from 96 and copied the data to an ssd, just to see if I could do it. No school like old school. But seriously Mike, spray for those humans. They have diseases. Kate --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
