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- Subject: Re: [SLUG] hard drive failure, back-up, and other unhappiness
- From: xorprime <xorprime@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 14:05:06 +1100
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I've been trying idrive.com recently. 2GB for free and when you refer using
a mail account with more than 5 Contacts (email), you will receive an
addtional of 10GB of storage
> (I should really be replying to the OP, but ..)
>
> Of course, the -sensible- method of doing it is to cycle through backup
> media,
> rather than having an "active" and "backup" disk set. All you need is one
> bad
> backup and everything is toast - or, in my case (which didn't hurt me as I
> -have- lots of backup disks that I swap in once a week into my enclosure,
> as
> well as hourly/daily/weekly incremental tarballs going off-site) lightning
> damaged the fileserver and the currently active full backup going to the
> external
> disk. Both were very charcoalled :)
>
> (Yet another problem solved thirty years ago that people keep
> reinventing..)
>
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
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