[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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