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On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 12:12:07AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote |
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> You can disagree as much as you like, but with the size of drives and |
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> the current error rate of consumer hard drives it is not a question of |
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> 'if' but just a matter of 'when'. |
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It's not just the drive; it's the entire PC. My main desktop at home |
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has had a few panics recently. It's several years old, and I'll be |
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getting rid of it, because I can't really trust it. I've switched to my |
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"hot backup", and am currently setting up a new machine as the new "hot |
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backup". After doing the initial Gentoo install, I copied over the |
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config files, with appropriate changes. I copied /var/lib/portage/world |
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and launched "emerge --changed-use --deep --update @world". A few |
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minutes ago, emerge was on package 228 of 337. |
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I have 3 USB backup drives and I use them all. This does not include |
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the monthly copying over of /home/waltdnes and /home/misc from the main |
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desktop to the "hot backup". |
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BTW, this is probably the first email sent out from this machine to |
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the Gentoo list. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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