[TriLUG] Re: Dieing hard drive?

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:25, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> > <rant content=insightful>
> > One word.  Over and over.  Backups, backups, backups, backups.  Don't 
> > trust the system.  Trust your backup and restore process because you've 
> > tested it, and are confident it works.  Anything less is asking for 
> > Murphy to ruin your day.
> > </rant>
> 
> Ya, I know.  My backups at work are tightly managed and throroughly 
> tested.  My home stuff is hanging out over the void for lack of 
> resources...

Build a backup system that takes no thought to maintain.  For example,
nightly rsyncs to a separate, equally-sized drive, or the rsync snapshot
backups that I talked about a few months back.

It takes some thinking up front, and some time.  But so does signing up
for homeowner's or car insurance.  You insure your physical assets, why
shouldn't you insure your information?

Jeremy
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