On Monday 28 February 2005 12:38, riccardo wrote:
> On Monday 28 February 2005 09:31 am, Keith Powell wrote:
> > I know that hard drives are cheap, but I don't want to have to go
> > to the trouble and expense of buying a new one unless I have to.
> > Also, it means salvaging all the data from it.
>
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>
> ~ on the other hand, data loss is a 'Pain', thus, maybe it is
> cheaper to have a couple of spare HardDisks, just to do off-site,
> whole-system RSYNC backups on alternate weekends :)
>
> { probably takes about 15 minutes to rsync backup an 8 gigabyte
> system - then unplug the spare HD and store it, off-site. }
>
>
> best rgds
> _________
Thanks for the reply.
Your suggestion of the RSYNC backups seems a useful one, and I will
investigate how to do it.
I think I will abandon the "drive-seek error" drive while I can still
get the data from it.
Cheers
Keith
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