[Eug-lug] network attached storage for home use

[Ben Barrett]

Absolutely, John -- just a note to other readers that the this thread
is discussing *backup*
in addition to network-attached storage.  I'm partly to blame :))
100%, watch out for the userland mistakes in an automated backup scenario...

ben


On Nov 7, 2007 1:42 PM, John Sechrest <sechrest at jas.peak.org> wrote:
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> "Ben Barrett" <stircrazyben at gmail.com> writes:
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>  % Why do you think a 2nd system should be running, John?
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>  I think that a backup is not a backup, unless it is on three different media.
>  It takes only one think-o before the mistake you make on your filesystem is replicated
>  to your backup and you loose data.
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>  % Unless you're
>  % away from home all the time, and still relying on network to access
>  % your own data (at a distance).
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>  It is not a matter of access, even though I like to think of things
>  assuming that there is remote access.
>  But it is a matter of keeping your data up to date and current.
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>  If you have an automated backup system, so that you don't loose data
>  more than a few hours old, then your automated backup needs to have at least 2 copies,
>  so that one can have the mistake on it that you just backed up and one can have the
>  real data that you want to recover from.
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