Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]RAID, or any other redundancy or high-availability configuration does not eliminate the requirement for backups. if you type in "rm -rf ~ " (or errant or misconfigured software commits equivalent badness) your high-tech drive array will obediently and cheerfully delete exabytes of data. your disks went RAID but your backups stayed -rei On Aug03 00:40, Frank Dernie wrote: > Hi Tina, > I use my Drobo to store everything I am working on but back up to single > disks too. Drobo should be able to repair itself if 1 disc fails but I > still back it up. > cheers, > Frank > > On 2 Aug, 2009, at 22:17, Tina Manley wrote: > >> At 05:04 PM 8/2/2009, you wrote: >>> 2009-08-02-15:37:17 Brian Reid: >>> > There are 2 problems here that are only slightly related. >>> > >>> > 1) Get your data off your damaged disk. >>> > >>> > 2) Restructure your computing world so that this never happens to >>> you again. >>> > >>> > It's important not to confuse these two. [...] >>> >>> What he said. >> Jeff - >> >> Yes, I'm working on retrieving the information off of the disk now. >> If I don't, it's not a disaster because I had all but the last week's >> work backed up on a WD hard drive with Acronis. I have to wait to get >> the Drobo and my new 1T WD disks to be sure I can restore what I've >> backed up with Acronis, but I've never had a problem with that before >> so I'm hoping all goes well. I'll know on Tuesday when the other disks >> get here. I don't intend to do anything with the damaged disk except >> try to retrieve the last week's work - it's scans of about 600 slides, >> which would mean a lot of time scanning but nothing irreplaceable. >> Everything else is either backed up or in RAW form on my travel hard >> drives. >> >> Now for restructuring my computing world to avoid future mistakes, >> I'm going to depend on the new imagestore listserve ;-) If I can keep >> up with the gurus!! >> >> Tina >> >> Tina Manley >> www.tinamanley.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Rei Shinozuka shino at panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey