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metageek

Duh moments

Sep 26, 2010 14:29

My desktop at home has four hard drives: one for a boot drive and three for a RAID array. Last week, the boot drive and one of the RAID drives failed. (Root cause: my UPS has failed; it's now an IPS.) So, long involved process: get two new drives, reinstall the OS on one of them, get the RAID array to rebuild drive 3 from the redundant ( Read more... )

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metageek September 27 2010, 14:22:34 UTC

Ah. You have noticed the missing element: I don't back it up. I used to back up to DVDs every so often, but these days it would take, I don't know, maybe 50 DVDs. Even if I got a Blu-Ray burner, it'd be about 16 discs.

I should probably get a file server and rsync to it regularly.

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metageek September 27 2010, 15:22:44 UTC

Hmm. That would probably work.

The advantage of a NAS is that it could live in the house (the desktop is in my lab above the garage), giving some more redundancy. (The house's outer shell is steel and concrete, so fire in the house is unlikely to reach the detached garage, or vice versa.) Meanwhile, I could get a different NAS in the lab, for backing up cvirtue's Mac. We're currently backing that up with an attached USB drive and Time Machine; again, distance would be nice.