On 10/27/2014 05:24 AM, Mick wrote: > I'm starting a new thread so as to not hijack the one about alternative > kernels, but continue with something Volker raised. > > On Sunday 26 Oct 2014 23:25:50 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> as others have written already: ssd. >> >> With a caveat: if an ssd dies, it will die suddenly. Without a warning. >> Usually 5 minutes before the start of your weekly or monthly backup run. >> And that is first hand experience. > I haven't yet started using SSD and have wondered what sort of a system > should > I set up to guard against such instantaneous catastrophic failures. I am > interested to hear what strategies people deploy to avoid data loss with > SSDs, > especially on laptops that don't have the luxury of raid redundancy.
All the data I have on my laptop is either: * Version Controlled * Rsync'd from a server * Not important My laptop doesn't have an SSD, but it's old and probably about ready to die in general. All of my documents are version controlled - git - and therefore "automatically" backed up. I rsync other files around, like my music and some software, so that's all backed up as well. > > With spinning drives I use tar and rsync at regular intervals. There have > been a few rare cases where a drive failed without prior notice - the last > one > after a reboot. In such cases I am prepared to live with the risk of some > data loss, on machines where raid is not an option. > afaik tar and rsync should continue to work for SSDs. The more places the data is in, the better. If you regularly rsync text (say /etc), I would consider version control. Alec
