> I think my original intention was to run the OS and applications off the SSD > and have the HDD as backup/storage.
Good plan. That's what I'm doing. > It somehow ended up backwards with the HDD running primary. Oops. Worst of all possible worlds: slower-than-desired operation, with data stored on faster-than-necessary "Surprise! You lose!" SSD storage. Ugh. Reminds me of that story about the wind farm. The hooked up things backwards and had the world's biggest and expensive fan! It was the upstream folks who noticed and asked the pointy question: why are you DRAWING power instead of sending it to us? > My main concern right now is my database file for my vehicle service record > program. As it should be. At work we spent considerable time laying out a protection strategy for the main database. Defense in depth, that's what's important. Multiple threat scenarios, multiple solutions in place. We are using an open source database, so vendor perfidy is also protected against. Another local seasonal business was struck by ransomware recently. They were 'down' for a week while they tried to recover. Knock on wood, it would be more like an hour for us. The most significant time loss is expected to be determining exactly what happened, and which recovery strategy is best to pursue to minimize data loss. > Everytime it starts it automatically backs up. It should its primary file and > the backup file was supposed to be going to the HDD. I had what I thought was > the backup file but it turns out it’s out of date by about 2 years. Not sure > yet what else I have on that SSD. Consider the nature of automatic backups carefully. A naive approach has ALL copies of your data vulnerable to damage or loss at once. You don't want today's (failed) backup attempt to destroy yesterday's good backup too. > After I get this sorted out best I can, I will be taking a much better > approach to backups I bet! -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
