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On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> What I really need to do, set up a RAID or some other backup method so |
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> that even if this happens again, I don't risk losing anything. Then |
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> again, that will take time as well. Also takes money. |
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Keep in mind that RAID is more about speed of recovery and protects |
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against the failure mode of total drive failure, which is a fairly |
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common failure mode. A hard drive failure on a RAID involves no |
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unplanned downtime, and a need for some short planned downtime to |
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replace the drive. |
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Backup protects against a lot more, but typically results in a |
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recovery that takes hours, and when the drive goes you're down without |
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warning. |
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> Most of that is recorded TV shows, movies etc. I also have some pics I |
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> took with my camera that can't be replaced. Those I backup to DVDs |
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> pretty regular. I use kbackup to tarball them and then burn them to |
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> DVDs. It works. One set is outside the home in case of fire. The |
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> biggest thing is some of those shows would be hard to get again plus the |
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> effort to get them as well. |
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So, stuff like photos I backup to the cloud, or to offsite media |
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(generally I favor the cloud for active stuff, and offsite media for |
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stuff I'm done with). Ditto for things like /etc, mysql, documents, |
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email, and other small but important things. |
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For stuff like MythTV recordings I used to just rely on RAID - |
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recognizing that there was a very real possibility that I could lose |
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them all. Now I also do a backup to a drive that is normally left |
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unmounted, which isn't great, but since I moved to btrfs I wanted |
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something on ext4 that had daily rsnapshots. Again, I'm willing to |
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risk losing this stuff. |
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Rich |