From: Chuck <xtension4osx-AT-mac.com>
Date: 08 May 2008 14:55:48 UTC   (08:55:48 AM in author's locale)
To: xtensionlist-AT-shed.com

Yea, backups make me paranoid. I make a lot of them. Can't trust that
all the O's and 1's will stay in the right place.

A RAID is a really nice way to go. Then backup to another RAID on
another machine. I even have a shared drive with my neighbor and we
back up to each others servers. Just another plan that I figured out.

Paranoia has served me well in the past and I see no reason to change.

I don't trust optical media. Had several go bad and thankful that
they weren't my only backup plan. They are the last backup if I have
time.

I still have files on my computer from 1988. Few people on the planet
can say that.

Chuck

On May 8, 2008, at 7:15 AM, James Sentman wrote:

>
> On May 7, 2008, at 10:00 PM, nz_no_junk wrote:
>
>> Ditto the recommendation on Seagate drives. I have begun swapping
>> out my Western Digital drives in favor of the larger capacity
>> (500Gb) Seagate drives inside my G4 Sawtooth. And among the
>> thousands of leased laptops at my employer, the Hitachi DeskStar
>> (DeathStar) drives notoriously fail at the worst possible times.
>> Compared with the time and hassle of recovery, not to mention real
>> loss of data, extra backups are much easier to afford these days.
>
> You guys have got me paranoid now. While I always backup my
> XTension database when I make changes to it, I haven't mirrored the
> drive itself in a long time now and I'm off to do that now! Then
> I"m going to order a couple of big drives to raid backup our stored
> backup and media data which is also on that machine.
>
> On top of that my Time Machine backup went goofy yesterday too!
> Started suggesting that there wasn't enough space anymore even
> though there was only the backup folder on the drive and nothing
> else and it was not able to make even a single full backup anymore.
> So I'm re-running that from scratch now.
>
> I'm usually pretety paranoid about backing up the important data.
> Make DVD burns of all the family photos periodically and copy them
> to a shared drive here and I even carry a tiny little 2gig usb
> stick on my keychain that has an encrypted disk image on it onto
> which I copy all the source code and other important things I might
> want to have with me when I escape a natural disaster...
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>
> James Sentman sentman.com http://
> MacHomeAutomation.com
>
>
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