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On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my |
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> videos on, eventually. |
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Hi Dale, |
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One thing I wanted to point out about the task you have in front of |
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you. There is a problem in your work statement here and it really |
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comes down to one single one letter word. That word was 'a', as in |
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"buy me _a_ LARGE hard drive" |
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No matter what drive you purchase, and no matter how well you treat |
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it, they all fail eventually and you lose your movies & all the time |
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it takes to put it back together again. At a minimum, if you plan on |
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buying one to use then you need to buy a _second_ drive to do backups |
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of the first. You need to rsync that second drive on a regular basis |
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and then disconnect it and put it in a different place in the house, |
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or even better, store it in a safety deposit box to protect against |
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theft or your house burning down, etc. |
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This sort of comment certainly goes for the system as a whole, but |
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at a seasoned Gentoo user I'm sure you're doing that already. ;-) Just |
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don't forget to do the same for this new drive. |
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Have fun, |
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Mark |