From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 29 07:01:11 2003 Return-Path: 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 C704316A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 07:01:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D81B43D4C for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 07:01:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id hBTF11406443; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:01:01 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200312291501.hBTF11406443@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: freebsd@dagerot.nu (Joachim Dagerot) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:01:00 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200312271840.hBRIeK418241@thunder.trej.net> from "Joachim Dagerot" at Dec 27, 2003 07:40:20 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What logs etc do I need to checkfrequently? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:01:11 -0000 > > As you with good memories know, I lost 3000 pictures of my first sons > first year this month. I did have a RAID-5 system with fresh disks, > however, shit happens and I have a feeling that this could have been > avoided if I read my log files better. > As has been mentioned, if you have critical or irreplaceable data, back it up. If your partitions are too large for any backup system you can use, then make a scheme for breaking the data in to more manageable sized partitions - use more partitions and even more slices and disk devices if needed. Those huge raid partitions are nice for some things, but have their drawbacks. You can get backup devices - LTO and high end DLT that hold up to 160 or more uncompressed, so that is a good single sized partition. They are expensive, but not compared to losing your data. Also, you are supposed to be able to use more than one tape in a backup. I don't know how well that works in FreeBSD dump/restore. I don't have a big enough disk under FreeBSD to make it go to more than one tape yet. But, I have successfully dumped partitions that needed up to 10 DAT tapes before on other UNIX systems. ////jerry > So basically, >