On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
man hdparm > 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. All I know is that Intel SSDs are very honestly made. > 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! I use rdiff-backup, it is great and is incremental. i > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
