Leslie Newell wrote: > The OS boots off a CF card but main storage is 2x 300GB > mechanical hard drives. Every day it backs up one drive to the other. It > has been running 24/7 for many years. > > Do you have a script that spins up the backup drive, runs the backup and then spins it down? If so, I'd like to see how you did that! If you don't spin down the backup drive, it may wear out at the same time as the main one.
I have kind of planned on moving to an SSD with daily hard-drive backup, but haven't worked out the exact mechanics of how to do it. I just got a 250 gb SATA drive for the backup, but haven't figured out what SSD to get, they are still a bit expensive. If this works out, I might do the same on my server, too. > > I have a SSD in my office computer for the fantastic speed. However it > did fail after less than 6 months which is rather worrying. It was > replaced under warranty but it doesn't bode well for long term life. > I don't have a huge turnover in files on my desktop system, but would be kind of afraid to do this without daily backup. I just was horrified to discover that if you recall an old backup "project" in K3B, it doesn't add any files that were created since the project was saved. I "ASSUMED" that it recalled only the directories, and backed up all files NOW in those directories! YIKES, glad I discovered this "feature" before I needed to recover files! Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
