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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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>> 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 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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>> 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 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 once |
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> a day a cron job copies my user directory to /home/<me>.bu/ . |
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> |
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> I know it burns energy but I'm prepared to make my small contribution to 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 day. At home, it depends how important your stuff is. For pictures you should always copy them on DVD. I regularly backup pictures for people who have ususable windows systems, for |
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them the pictures are the most important 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 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 redudancy. I also have some backups on a 500G driver which is not powered 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 copies of every few months. I remembered that in the early days of CD that their life was rather limited and am not taking chances on DVD even though I think the technology is a lot |
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better. |
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For Linux Software visit |
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http://home.comcast.net/~mcatudal |
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/suzielinux/ |
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