Air gapped backups are super important.   One of my clients once was gunned by 
an attacker that erased the backups off their NAS.  I had pushed for them to 
have air gapped backups and they did but they didn't really believe in them.  
That made them a believer!

Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Michael Ewan
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2023 3:50 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] External drive issue

I generally keep at least three copies of important stuff, the original, the 
rsync backup, and another rsync on a different machine (that one also has cloud 
backup). For really important stuff I have an air gap off site disk with a copy 
of everything (the problem there is remembering to refresh it).

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 11:44 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Mar 2023, Michael Ewan wrote:
>
> > Note, mkfs.xfs is done on the raid1 disk set, not on the individual
> drives.
>
> Michael,
>
> Got it. I'm seriouly considering formatting both with xfs, installing 
> dirvish on /dev/sde1 then using rsync to keep /dev/sdf1 as a mirror. 
> Not being combined into a logical volume I shouldn't again lose all 
> backups because the lv failed and wiped both disks.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>

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