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Hello, Rich. |
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I'd like to say hello again to everybody, just to mark that I'm still |
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here and still using Gentoo, and thank people for (a lot of) help |
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rendered in the past. My system, used mainly for SW development, has |
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been stable and well behaved, with very occasional exceptions, for some |
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while now. |
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 11:51:47 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 11:31 AM Laurence Perkins <lperkins@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > If it's just that the SSD is failing, then get a new one before |
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> > something important gets damaged and you have to redo the whole thing. |
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> IMO any kind of storage device should be treated as if it could fail |
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> at any time without warning. You should have a plan for what you will |
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> do WHEN this happens, not IF it happens. |
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> If losing a storage device would result in you losing "something |
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> important" then you're doing it wrong. |
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> I keep all my spinning disks in some kind of RAID unless their |
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> contents are completely expendable (ie I won't be upset if I |
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> completely lose it). For SSDs I generally do frequent rsync or |
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> zfs-send backups to a spinning disk - these are generally used for OS |
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> data which doesn't change as much anyway, and the backups are quick |
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> since they aren't large. If I had large SSDs I'd run them in some |
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> sort of RAID. |
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> And of course anything I consider really important gets backed up to |
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> the cloud, encrypted. RAID is more about avoiding downtime and the |
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> inconvenience of an offline restore. |
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On my new box, from 2017-04, I don't have any spinning disks (other than |
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the DVD burner). I just have a pair of NVMe SSDs in a RAID 1 |
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configuration, with everything bar /boot mirrored. |
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I back up once a week to one of two DVD+RWs (alternately), and encrypted |
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to a "cloud" service (what used to be known as a "computer bureau"). |
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Up to now, I've never had a HDD or SDD fail on me. :-) I hope that |
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when this does eventually happen, I'll be prepared. |
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> -- |
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> Rich |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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