Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:01:39 +0200 From: lars <lars@gmx.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine Message-ID: <42D82433.10200@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <42D8101B.2040806@mac.com> References: <38171.1121430073@thrush.ravenbrook.com> <42D7EBDE.8030807@mac.com> <BC30FE72-677D-413E-AE10-7E8FB5356CB2@shire.net> <42D80B5D.6060107@mac.com> <9645FE68-04AE-4B74-AB33-4746A609E317@shire.net> <42D8101B.2040806@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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. > How fitting, my HDD with FreeBSD on it just failed, RIP. But appr. 2h ago I backed up all my files to my storage server ;-)
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