On 12/26/14, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > > It feels more like a random machine failure due to the consumer grade > hardware which we are all using these days. It isn't required to run > faster than the bear. It is only required to run faster than the > other person who is also running from the bear. Therefore hardware > vendors don't make great reliable Unix server quality hardware these > days. Instead it is mosly MS quality hardware. Almost no desktops > have parity anymore for example. Because of this the hardware just > isn't ultimately reliable. You will drive yourself crazy if you try > to chase down every odd thing.
Am reading through the latest on this thread again. Just had the same thought I did while reading the original emails for it. Somewhere in the last couple months... I read "something somewhere" about that lost or mixed up packets (?) do and will happen regardless of our very best efforts. The gist of whatever I read was that all we could do was hope it never happened to anything crucially important.. I am so sorry that that is as much as I remember with chances I'll ever stumble back on the same being pretty slim. It's possible it was about something like rsync.. I've been relying on rsync regularly as I keep working on polishing my Debian Pure technique.. I do remember thinking it sure bytes that backups we hope will cover our backsides actually stand a known possibility for being disastrous themselves.. I can remember mentally visualizing the file hierarchy while thinking that every single file in it, no matter how critical, was 100% equally vulnerable at those times of transfers..... Couldn't think of the words then but "integrity checks" or some such similar comes to mind now... Thinking out loud.. :) Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAO1P-kB-hoDSNqrq=vpoGZg7GAK9HatRxLf-dfqsgWVfPvwT=w...@mail.gmail.com
