Re: Clone those discs, people

Neon John wrote:
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:44:29 -0800, Ralph E Lindberg
<n7bsn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Both our techniques are a relatively large amount of work. But.
RAID would not have solved my self-induced "no-boot" situation
because both drives would have been identically crippled. Neither
would it solve any malware problem. All RAID is good for is
hardware failure and that's becoming quit rare anymore.

True, expect Bob was talking about what -he- did with a desktop

Actually, we were swapping notes on techniques and you tossed the
RAID bit in. Actually, RAID would not solve the kind of problem I
created for myself had it been a desktop. Nothing short of the
cloned drive (off-line and safely in storage when I pulled my
dumb-ass) or some very good conventional backups and a lot of luck
would have addressed that problem.

Sooo... Back to my original comment. RAID is good for hardware
failures only and we don't have many of those anymore. Cloning (or
Bob's technique) handles hardware failure, cockpit failures, malware
and all other types of failures pertaining to hard drives.

John

You may want to consider doing it differently for a different
reason.....Instead of using the directories under my documents, I created
three directories constantly changing, moderatly changing, and unchanging
(and subdirectories under that, word, excel, pix, video, sound etc...I
have/use lots of different puters, but only keep the stuff in constantly
changing on c, then clean/categorize/etc and move it to moderatly (which at
the moment happens to be a usb drive/online file storage etc, or an old
laptop/with broken keys as a network node and several tb's of storage), that
way I don't have to keep backing up the same old thing all the time (not
much into pix, only have 10k of those, but have 50,000 mp3's, and about
2,000 avi/mpg/etc, couldn't see constantly backing up old stuff) how to
synch em? Neat little free program called vice/versa (http://www.tgrmn.com/
pro version costs, but they have a free one too) compares/synch/copies
between drives/network (wired or wireless) locations...

Why bother? I constantly change computers (some people change socks, I
change hardware)... I tried to figger out a way of doing it where no matter
the hardware/location it would work the same...

When you talked about backing up to something in your toad I was thinking
why not a wireless network/vice versa and and old puter/big drive in the
toad trunk? and why mess with raid when you can have multple 'puters and usb
drives ready to go?


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