From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 19:36:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EB116A430 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:36:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C208343D49 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:36:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 356A25E45; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:36:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 37617-02; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:35:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-54-113.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.54.113]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DF75F4D; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:35:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42D8101B.2040806@mac.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:35:55 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" References: <38171.1121430073@thrush.ravenbrook.com> <42D7EBDE.8030807@mac.com> <42D80B5D.6060107@mac.com> <9645FE68-04AE-4B74-AB33-4746A609E317@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <9645FE68-04AE-4B74-AB33-4746A609E317@shire.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: Nick Barnes , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:36:06 -0000 Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Jul 15, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] >> Sure. But a single spare HD is a single point of failure. Having >> one tape per week or per month going back 10 or 100 tapes gives much >> more redundancy.... > > Better yet -- using dump, backup to HD and then copy that dump file to > tape or CD/DVD or another HD... > > I use 2 HDs and alternate which one I dump to each week. Agreed. Having an online backup location which then gets dumped to tape or some second place is excellent, since it makes restoring via rsync or whatever very easy. As someone else suggested, you can also stick things like config files into version control (like CVS, subversion, etc), and then back that up via the mechanism above. -- -Chuck