max.spicer wrote:
>
> Manuel Rathmann wrote (in "New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver"):
>> [..] my harddrive just went up in smoke - most probaply because I
> left it running for too long due to my Squeezebox.
>
> This sort of thing scares me a lot. I reckon I'll have spent 36 hours
> ripping all my music when I'm done, and there will be around 100GB of
> data. How do you go about backing this sort of thing up? The only
> really feasible thing I can think of is to buy a second hard disk and
> use RAID 1 (mirrored pair of disks). After that, I just have to hope
> that something doesn't happen that takes out the whole computer. Has
> anyone else got any workable solutions?
I just arranged with one of my friends to backup my music to his computer
nightly using rsync. I'm already backing up my mail and a large portion
of my home directories. I'm thinking about sending him a spare 60 gig
drive I have lying about to mount it in, but that will probably be later.
This machine has plenty of spare capacity.
Since I'm in Seattle Washington and the machine is in Dublin Ohio, short
of thermo-nuclear warfare, my music should be safe. In the event of
thermo-nuclear warfare, I will have bigger fish to fry.
--
Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity
is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
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