[Eug-lug] Switch list

Fri Mar 9 09:38:07 PST 2007

Be careful about what your drive enclosure can handle -- some are
"rated" for up to so-many GB, but some drives require more power than
the enclosure's power supply can handle.
As for portability & ease, if you do not need hundreds (but only up to
say 160GB, now, I think), consider a 2.5-inch "laptop" drive:  they're
powered over USB so you only need one cable, and of course they're
smaller in physical dimension too :)

A few related topics you might want to explore, almost in order:
1. Rsync (yes, it has been said many times, just validating this all-time tool)
2. Scripting the rsync batches for various directories and specific
files (list out from/to combos)
3. Using a versioning system for the parts of your backups that make
sense (another topic entirely)
4. Using a password-protected volume or virtual folder on that
external drive (should be #0!)
5. Testing the backup (recovery run-through should be done before
relying on the backup)
6. Duplicating the drive (only one backup?  put another off-site for safety)
7. Robotic housecleaning
8. Flying cars

good luck!

ben

On 3/9/07, B. Gallagher <bilbobaggab at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do understand that the direction of technology flow seems to be into
> the use of external HDD's for back-up so maybe I'm beating a dead horse
> here.  I bought an External HDD shell for $25 and intend to throw a 500
> GB Seagate internal in there (right now it has that noisy 30 GB Maxtor,
> that I'm waiting to see die, till I get the money.)
>
> I'm talking about softRAID and a home user.  I guess RAID 1 is a moot
> point, but what about RAID 0?  Isn't there a performance  boost or is
> this a lot of complexity for not much performance gain?  This is
> practice, not theory, so its fair for me to ask.  What's your experience?
>
> Brian
>
> P.S. Technology freefall...it is hard for me to get use to.
>
> LinuxRocks! wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:37:39AM -0800, B. Gallagher wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:37:39 -0800
> >> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug at euglug.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Switch list
> >> From: "B. Gallagher" <bilbobaggab at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> I could be into that.  I was trying to setup a RAID 1 for Ubuntu.  I
> >> found it easier for FC 4 (must be the way the info is displayed.)  My
> >> efforts were half-hearted, so I'll try again to make that work before I
> >> ask for any help.
> >>
> >> I may have a collection of matched drives (WD 7.5 - 20 GB) for people to
> >> have as experimenters.  I need to know the disaster recovery routine for
> >> when one of these mirrored drives fails.  I am using new Seagate drives
> >> so I don't think about it much, but I really don't know how to recover.
> >> Something like use the remaining (working) drive to repeat the RAID
> >> setup process.
> >>
> >> An XP RAID 0 was easy to setup once I saw the F6 (F2, can't remember?)
> >> third party prompt, but Linux looks even easier, once you get the hang
> >> of it, and I feel that people would be into this for data safety.
> >>
> >
> > I have a PCI IDE raid controller card that im not using... I give up on
> > raid. regular drives work fine for my needs.
> >
> >
> >> Brian
> >>
> >> P.S. the answer to my FAT32 question was indirectly answered in earlier
> >> posts of a month ago (i.e. use a USB external HDD and be done with it.)
> >> Don't mind me if I lurk more and post less, its time to take the
> >> training wheels off (I need to do more web research before I post stupid
> >> questions.)
> >>
> >
> > Thats what I usually do. a lot of times the 1GB SD card for my
> > camera/mp3 player does the trick, If I have to do a lot of stuff, i
> > have a USB HDD. I rarely use CD/DVD's anymore.
> >
> > Jamie
> >
> > player works fine
> >
> >> LinuxRocks! wrote:
> >>
> >>> You know, we used to do that. Then we backed it up with weely clincs. If
> >>> we plan in advance, take advantage of free publicity, we could get quite
> >>> the draw, and help a lot of people out. We havnt done one in like 5
> >>> years, so we are probably about due.
> >>>
> >>> Jamie
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:14:43PM -0800, Mike Cherba wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Switch list
> >>>> From: Mike Cherba <mike.cherba at caviumnetworks.com>
> >>>> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <euglug at euglug.org>
> >>>> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:14:43 -0800
> >>>> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1
> >>>>
> >>>> Maybe we should organize an ubuntu installfest for those interested in
> >>>> NOT moving to Vista.
> >>>>                    -Mike
> >>>>
> >>>> While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy
> >>>> making mistakes and becoming superior. -- Henry C. Link
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 07:21 -0800, B. Gallagher wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Many people, daunted by Vista's hardware requirements and product
> >>>>> activation issues, claim on various boards how they plan to "switch to
> >>>>> Linux."
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I think this is even simpler.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mr O wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Well thought and simple.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> This:
> >>>>>> http://consumer.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTI5OCwxLCxoY29uc3VtZXI=
> >>>>>> goes on to show what it is like for a dedicated Windows user to
> >>>>>> try linux. Admittedly, the guy is a n00b.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --- Mike Cherba <mike.cherba at caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Ran across this on bbspot this evening.  Thought I 'd poke it
> >>>>>>> to the
> >>>>>>> list for folks to check out.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> http://popey.com/The_Truth_About_Switching
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart
> >>>>>>> death,
> >>>>>>> there's brain death, and there's being off the network. ---
> >>>>>>> Guy Almes
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