This point from John always bears repeating. If you are not testing that your restores work correctly, then you don't know whether you have a backup solution or not. :-)
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:46 AM, John F. Eldredge <[email protected]> wrote: > Make sure your plan includes storing at least some of the backups off-site, > to protect against disasters such as fire or tornadoes. Also, make sure > your backup plans include periodically checking that the data backed up is > usable. Back in my system administration days, I once encountered a > situation where a hard drive problem was garbling the data before it was > backed up; the backup software wasn't reporting any problems, because it was > making an accurate copy of the already-garbled data. > > > On 04/04/2017 11:17 AM, Kent Perrier wrote: > > This might be of some help: > > https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-benchmark-stats-2016/ > > I really can't help on the storage side but that article should give you an > idea on hard drive reliability. Unless you want to replace ALL the data when > any single drive fails I'd recommend some form of redundancy. Depending on > how deep you want to go down this rabbit hole, take a look at ZFS on Linux. > > Kent > > On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Michael L <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hello NLUG, >> Thanks to Jerry Perkins (for invaluable guidance on installing Debian >> server) and thanks to NLUG we are getting a direly needed backup / archive >> system in place. I'll let Jerry share his meticulous notes on the details. >> Interestingly, due to transportation issues, Jerry has been guiding me via >> phone and email, so I am seeing all the details, that I might not otherwise >> see if he were present doing all the implementing. >> >> For the archive portion of the project (190TB of video, growing by 2TB per >> month), I was thinking of a JBOD array (or multiple lesser arrays). I've >> been advised against RAID, as this won't be the only existing archive and >> due to length of time for RAID rebuild in the event of a drive failure. >> >> At our December meeting Vince mentioned something important if not >> critical to consider, that we may see a flood of cheaper HDDs hit the >> market. Indeed, Seagate's former 5yr warranty is no longer; now it's one >> year. >> >> We currently put to use a Dell R220 with miniSAS, USB3, and dual ethernet >> ports; maybe I should add eSATA? I know that some of you having worked at >> DELL don't hold their hardware in high regard; this was just bought a while >> back (for an LTO6 system still to be implemented... later) >> >> Anyone with knowledge and experience on different HDD array hardware, >> please advise. >> >> This help is saving us thousands of dollars in (in$ulting) IT >> con$ulting. >> Thank you kindly- M >> >> PS I can still come video the meetings - just have to bolt at 7:02pm - >> anything to help keep NLUG going. 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