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I personally find it beneficial to backup to an online source locally or in |
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an online storage service (as long as encryption incurs etc). |
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DVD are indeed limited in life. You are still better off with other |
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offline storage mediums such as an external hdd or tape indeed. |
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I've found crashplans unlimited storage 10 machine online backup solution |
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to be an excellent solution for desktop machines where connectivity is not |
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guaranteed for cronnd rsyncs etc. Of course it relies on running a fat jar |
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, but it works. |
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As to uptime, I keep my windows desktops machine online more than my linux |
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desktops just due to how frequent kernel updates occur. |
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On Aug 30, 2015 7:11 PM, "Michel Catudal" <mcatudal@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Le 2015-08-30 11:56, Peter Humphrey a écrit : |
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>> On Sunday 30 August 2015 00:04:43 Philip Webb wrote: |
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>>> How long do desktop users typically leave their systems between reboots ? |
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>>> How long between power off/on's ? |
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>>> |
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>>> I've long been in the habit of switching everything off while I sleep, |
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>>> then restarting after I've woken & got going again myself. |
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>>> However recently, I've run into delays getting my router |
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>>> (only 1 device attached) to shake hands successfully with my ISP's |
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>>> server, |
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>>> which have been requiring several power off/on's before it works. |
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>>> As a result, I've started rebooting only after my weekly system update |
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>>> -- it means I get to use the new versions of everything -- |
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>>> & not powering off at all ; the monitor + Xscreensaver are off |
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>>> whenever I'm away from the machine for >= 1 hr (approx). |
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>>> |
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>>> Are there any pro's/con's I sb aware of ? |
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>> No-one has yet mentioned taking backups. I'm still using a brute-force |
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>> approach, in which I shut down each of my two machines once a week to |
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>> make a |
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>> backup to external disk. Otherwise they're on 24 hours a day running BOINC |
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>> projects. On the desktop PC kmail makes a daily archive of messages, and |
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>> once |
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>> a day a cron job copies my user directory to /home/<me>.bu/ . |
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>> I know it burns energy but I'm prepared to make my small contribution to |
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>> what |
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>> I think is a good cause. |
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>> Backups are vital for a server in company. At work we do a backup every |
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> day. At home, it depends how important your stuff is. For pictures you |
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> should always copy them on DVD. I regularly backup pictures for people who |
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> have ususable windows systems, for them the pictures are the most important |
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> stuff but they do not back them up. |
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> Personally I don't like to do regular backups because that involves too |
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> many DVDs. I probably should do my backups more often. |
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> I do have 3 2TB hard disks with important data copied on each for |
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> redudancy. I also have some backups on a 500G driver which is not powered |
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> usually. I also make some backup on DVDs sometimes. |
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> Anything that is of extreme importance I have in several DVDs which I make |
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> copies of every few months. I remembered that in the early days of CD that |
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> their life was rather limited and am not taking chances on DVD even though |
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> I think the technology is a lot better. |
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> -- |
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> For Linux Software visit |
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> http://home.comcast.net/~mcatudal |
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