[Leica] World of pain

[afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)]

Thank you for these suggestions. I do need to re-investigate back up
programmes. This morning I was copying a set of folders. One marked
MexicoCuba 2010 just does not want to copy. All the others just chug
along. I am going to relabel etc that one folder and see if it responds
then. Tiny corruptions make for big "issues".

Cheers

alastair

> On Jul 19, 2010 at 08:38 AM -0400, afirkin at afirkin.com wrote:
>> I know some of you will probably say: "the idiot deserves all he gets",
>> but boy am I in a 'world of pain'.
>
> Sorry to hear about your experiences.  Hopefully you didn't lose too much.
>
> Personally, from what I've heard/read/know, I would not look at Time
> Machine/RAID/Drobos, etc., as anything other than conveniences.  Yes, they
> are great for certain things, and can be used as an *extra* layer of
> backup,
> but I would not rely on them as the main safety net.  Wonderfully
> convenient
> until the Drobo or Time Machine decides to shit the bed and corrupts your
> backup.  For that you just need plain old redundancy.  As many backup
> copies
> as you can, stored on different devices.
>
> If you use a Mac, try SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner.  Mirror your main
> drives to 1, 2, or even 3 backup copies.  Backup every night.  Rotate
> offsite every week or so.
>
> There's a lot of utilities out there to do incremental backups too.
> SuperDuper will do smart backups, only copying changed files, but it still
> treats the process as mirroring a whole drive.  If you want to delve into
> something like rsync or rdiff-backup, you can cobble together a script to
> backup certain important folders (your image libraries) incrementally very
> quickly.  To remote systems too.
>
> If you really want to get into it, buy a second computer setup with
> something like Linux just for backups.  Have your main computer backup to
> the backup computer once a night.  Have the backup computer mirror its
> data
> to backup drives, taking the load off the main computer.
>
> You can also look into LTO tape backups.  I think they are still around.
>
> If you are a professional and can afford it, maybe hire a computer
> consultant to design a backup system for you.
>
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