On 04/27/2010 06:13 PM, James E. LaBarre wrote: > On 04/27/2010 04:02 PM, John D. Mort wrote: >> What backup strategies are you using right now? >> > .... >> >> I understand that my exposure right now is the destruction of my home, >> that's a threshold I'm comfortable with. > > Well, I've already dealt with that scenario. Granted, my hardware > wasn't in a part of the house that was gutted, but I did observe one > important point; never keep your backups in the same room as the > backed-up system. And one of the first things I did when I went to the > house later in the day was to pull my hard drives from my system so tha > I could copy off the data (written to a couple sets of DVDs). > > One thing I did when backing up my recovered files to DVD was I bought 2 > different brands of disk, and made sure they had a different appearance > (one with a silver tint, one with a gold tint). That would at least > avoid a disasterous problem with a bad batch of disks. I had saved my > files to a borrowed USB drive, and pre-split the files into DVD-sized > directories.
I'm currently getting some new drives for an upgraded array, and am
explicitly ordering them staggered. When I built this raid array not
only did I probably get a lot in the same batch, I've actually got
serial numbers 3QF08XRQ and 3QF08XRW (6 apart). While they've been good
so far, I want to avoid that the next time around.
-Sean
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There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors
than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down.
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