From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 21:00:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5542416A420 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:00:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@gmx.at) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3598543D49 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:00:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@gmx.at) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Jul 2005 21:00:53 -0000 Received: from 205.121.63.81.cust.bluewin.ch (EHLO [192.168.1.11]) [81.63.121.205] by mail.gmx.net (mp020) with SMTP; 15 Jul 2005 23:00:53 +0200 X-Authenticated: #912863 Message-ID: <42D82433.10200@gmx.at> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:01:39 +0200 From: lars User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <38171.1121430073@thrush.ravenbrook.com> <42D7EBDE.8030807@mac.com> <42D80B5D.6060107@mac.com> <9645FE68-04AE-4B74-AB33-4746A609E317@shire.net> <42D8101B.2040806@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <42D8101B.2040806@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:00:56 -0000 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > >> On Jul 15, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > [ ... ] > >>> Sure. But a single spare HD is a single point of failure. Having >>> one tape per week or per month going back 10 or 100 tapes gives much >>> more redundancy.... >> >> >> Better yet -- using dump, backup to HD and then copy that dump file >> to tape or CD/DVD or another HD... >> >> I use 2 HDs and alternate which one I dump to each week. > > > Agreed. Having an online backup location which then gets dumped to tape > or some second place is excellent, since it makes restoring via rsync or > whatever very easy. > > As someone else suggested, you can also stick things like config files > into version control (like CVS, subversion, etc), and then back that up > via the mechanism above. > How fitting, my HDD with FreeBSD on it just failed, RIP. But appr. 2h ago I backed up all my files to my storage server ;-)