Bill Eldridge wrote: > Also, I can't imagine NTFS being around for 11 years with various > upgrades and having this error > situation persist. Really brave people will try a ext2/3 plugin for Windows. That's your best bet for losing data fast! (I know.)
I find that with a few machines around, I inevitably need a Windows machine and mutual access to the data on that system from various operating systems. SMB/CIFS being a universal client (and server), the most robust and least frustrating configuration for me is a large windows file server (on NTFS) and network clients via SMB. Samba is such a nuisance to setup compared to just configuring shares in Windows. It's not the fastest setup, but not all data access needs to be super fast. (e.g. target for mirroring backups, compressed source packages, etc.) Anyway, on the topic of backups, I put in a vote for buying lots of drives (they are dirt cheap) and having some at a remote location (e.g. at work). Then it is just a matter of mirroring, in a waterfall type arrangement, so to have different ages of backups. The last one being to a remote location for a physical copy outside of your primary work location. (Hey, gotta get every penny of value out of that broadband subscription!) ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
