[OCLUG-Tech] Reminder of the April AGM

2018-02-25 Thread Scott Murphy
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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

2018-02-25 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 10:37:05 -0500 Tim Forbes wrote: > On the subject of remote media storage, I have always been concerned > about privacy and have not arrived at a good answer for my personal > situation. Perhaps a safety deposit box is the right answer, or maybe >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

2018-02-25 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 14:03:09 -0500 Rick Leir wrote: > How are dvd's for archiving photos? I would not trust consumer-recordable DVDs to last beyond a few years. My backups are all to hard drives in three separate locations. Everything is RAIDed. I'm placing my bet that

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

2018-02-25 Thread Spencer Cheng
Not very good for long term storage. Specific type of DVD media is more or less OK. > In general the problem is that of

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

2018-02-25 Thread J C Nash
I've had some dvds (DVD+R or DVD-R types) report read errors when I went to check them after a couple of years. It seems the physical media is not as stable as originally advertised. JN On 2018-02-25 02:03 PM, Rick Leir wrote: > How are dvd's for archiving photos? I have been betting on them.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

2018-02-25 Thread Rick Leir
How are dvd's for archiving photos? I have been betting on them. They would not survive a fire, but they are compact so you can send a copy to a relative for safekeeping. I suspect that they would survive flooding. Maybe we will still have dvd drives in ten years! Otherwise we will have to copy

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

2018-02-25 Thread Tim Forbes
On 2018-02-24 01:05 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: On 2018-02-24 11:27, Tim Forbes wrote: My desktop uses anacron to run a script that rsync's files from my server. For redundancy and to permit media rotation, the files go to a ZFS mirror array physically housed in two of these...