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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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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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True. My issue with RAID is that it is yet another thing I have to |
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maintain. I started using lvm and so far, it has been low maintenance |
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and has made changing things MUCH easier when I do need to move things |
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around a bit. It is a time saver to be more accurate. RAID also leaves |
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me open to theft, house fire and such too. At the moment, I think, like |
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you, having a external drive that I keep somewhere else is the safest |
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method. Thing is, getting a drive big enough to do this. Buying this |
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drive put a dent in my debt. That said, I really need to buy another |
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drive if this old one turns out to be bad and set up some sort of backup |
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plan. If it turns out to be OK somehow, then I may have a solution, |
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maybe. |
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While I don't want to lose anything, my camera pics is the most |
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important to keep. That's why I rotate backups and keep one set outside |
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the house. I would rather not lose my videos and could get most of them |
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back but it won't be easy for sure. |
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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 |
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I don't have anything on the cloud to backup too. That would likely be |
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a good idea but I can't afford anything pricey, which is why I hadn't |
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bought a backup drive before now either. Plus, something I'd prefer to |
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keep under my thumb. Heck, some things here are encrypted, bank info |
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and such. Also, while I have DSL, it ain't real speedy. Backing up |
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that much data over my connection could take a while, like days, maybe |
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even a week or more. |
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I really do need a plan that I can manage to put in place tho. Murphy's |
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law and all. :-D |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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