[Novalug] Hard Drive Data Recovery

Chuck Moss cmnl@mossc.com
Fri Jul 6 22:43:21 EDT 2007


On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 04:15:34PM -0400, Ed T. Toton III wrote:
> Thus spake Angelo Bertolli:
> 
> >Hmmm, that's a good point.  I was only thinking about the problems I 
> >have due to a bad environment, not about failure.  What about another 
> >trade-off between space (that I'm not using) and reliability:  other 
> >partitions that serve as an rsync backup?  Would I gain reliability with 
> >that?
> >
> >Or more to the point:  how do I get my money's worth out of a 160G 
> >drive?  ;)
> 
> I'm a big fan of rsync-backups. You can cron a nightly rsync pretty 
> easily. Best of all, it helps protect you from yourself... if you catch 
> mistakes within the day they occur, you can easily recover. Easiest, of 
> course, is to sync to another partition on the disk. However, I've also 
> had a few machines configured to sync to each other's left over space, so 
> if a disk fails in one, it has a backup on another box.

Also worth looking at is rdiff-backup.  It keeps a current backup of
whatever you specify and the diffs to restore to ANY day since you started
the backup process.  (assuming nightly rdiff-backup)


Chuck




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