On Monday 27 Oct 2014 12:27:58 Philip Webb wrote: > 141027 Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 26 Oct 2014 23:25:50 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> With a caveat: if an ssd dies, it will die suddenly. Without a warning. > > > > I haven't yet started using SSD and wonder what sort of a system > > should I set up to guard against such instantaneous catastrophic > > failures. > > My desktop machine is now 2 yrs old & has an SSD for immediate stuff ; > it also has an HHD with 500 GB available. > Files I'm working on are backed daily to HHD & to USB stick ; > once/week I use a script in Krusader to copy everything in ~ or /etc > which has changed during that week onto HHD & USB > & also to an off-site system I have I/net access to ; > I also run a simple Bash script to rsync system files to an HHD copy. > Every 9 mth I do a full back-up of everything in ~ or /etc , > of which I keep at least 1 copy off-site & another on CD (in future DVD) > for when the Earth's poles change & everything magnetic is wiped out > (grin). > > 2 belts + 3 braces : HTH.
I have never been that diligent with my back ups, unless we're talking about critical data which I will save in two separate systems/media from the start. Otherwise, I run a back up of the whole system every 3 months or so. Perhaps with an SSD I will do this once a month. -- Regards, Mick
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