Comments on: Hard drive! Mercy! http://sububi.org/2007/04/29/hard-drive-mercy/ Computing, education, and some embedded bits Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:43:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: matt http://sububi.org/2007/04/29/hard-drive-mercy/#comment-1316 matt Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:06:59 +0000 http://www.sububi.org/2007/04/29/hard-drive-mercy/#comment-1316 Hm. Yes, and no. Generally speaking, I want my backup to be complete and automatic. If it isn't complete, I might forget there's something I want to backup. If it isn't automatic, I might forget to run it. Anything that requires me to think about my backups is a Bad Plan. My new office machine, for example, will have an external drive the same size as the internal drive. It will be a daily mirror, and exist to save me when the internal drive takes a dump; I'll just boot from the external, instead. This isn't an archive, and it might not save me from deleting files, but it will save me from the class of disaster that is most disruptive to my daily work: hard drive failure. Hm. Yes, and no. Generally speaking, I want my backup to be complete and automatic. If it isn’t complete, I might forget there’s something I want to backup. If it isn’t automatic, I might forget to run it.

Anything that requires me to think about my backups is a Bad Plan. My new office machine, for example, will have an external drive the same size as the internal drive. It will be a daily mirror, and exist to save me when the internal drive takes a dump; I’ll just boot from the external, instead.

This isn’t an archive, and it might not save me from deleting files, but it will save me from the class of disaster that is most disruptive to my daily work: hard drive failure.

]]> By: Greco8523 http://sububi.org/2007/04/29/hard-drive-mercy/#comment-1315 Greco8523 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:54:56 +0000 http://www.sububi.org/2007/04/29/hard-drive-mercy/#comment-1315 Sometimes with backup you need to balance how practical it is cause it can be time consuming when you have a lot of data. Best way is to backup only what you know you couldn't live without. I've actually been building a site on data recovery. www.datarecoveryadvice.org if there's any articles you would like me to cover let me know. Sometimes with backup you need to balance how practical it is cause it can be time consuming when you have a lot of data. Best way is to backup only what you know you couldn’t live without. I’ve actually been building a site on data recovery.

http://www.datarecoveryadvice.org if there’s any articles you would like me to cover let me know.

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