When I was still subscribed to Leo Laporte's podcast, one of his guests was a photographer. He thought of a simple back up system called 1-2-3 backup. The first step is when you want to do backups, daily? weekly? monthly? Then do 1 - local backup ,then move to 2 which is external backup, then 3 which is offsite backup.
FWIW, I only do 1 and 2 since I cannot afford offsite backup yet. I do hear good things about cloud-based backup systems. You may want to give it a shot using a free trial. On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Greek Ordono <[email protected]> wrote: > SMARTD is what your looking for! We also have several servers that are > running mcelog[1] for hardware failure monitoring. Backup is still important > even if you have these tools! > > [1] > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-server-predicting-hardware-failure.html > > -- > Greek Ordono > myppa: > launchpad.net/~grexk/+archive/ppa<http://launchpad.net/%7Egrexk/+archive/ppa> > > --- On *Fri, 9/24/10, Red Sancho <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Red Sancho <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [plug] Disk preventive maintenance > To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" < > [email protected]> > Date: Friday, 24 September, 2010, 8:39 PM > > > that's a long shot up sell but worth trying, we've already identified that > risk of not having a backup policy but from where we stand right now adding > cost to a losing business isnt gonna go far up the ladder... anyways, is it > possible to prevent or at least detect an FS failure looming? This is what > happend... after joining the company i found out that most of the servers > are running on debian etch and i brought this to the attention of my boss > and he agreed to perform upgrades to the majority of the etch servers. after > performing the distro upgrade and rebooting, our sdb1 didn't mount and all > of the files went into lost+found, i also got "missing journal for > /dev/sdb1" from messages. i tried to mount it only to find that all of the > files are now in lost+found, so i unmounted it and ran fsck (probably a bad > thing). Now im wondering what could have caused this error in the fs. > > also one question, is it ok to run fsck read-only on a mounted device? > > Tia > > ------------------------------ > *From:* eric pareja <[email protected]> > *To:* Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Fri, September 24, 2010 8:11:25 PM > *Subject:* Re: [plug] Disk preventive maintenance > > You will still need to perform backup to avoid data loss when > migrating in any case. > You have to define a backup policy first, your mechanism merely > implements the policy. > > Data loss is more expensive than backup. You will have to integrate > backup costs into your operations. > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Red Sancho > <[email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]>> > wrote: > > thanks for pointing that out, currently there are no backup mechanism in > > place for the "file servers" and since they are holding around 2TB of > data > > per server it would take a lot of time to backup all of the servers and > also > > the files are constantly changing... > > -- > Eric Manuel Pareja > ([email protected]<http://mc/[email protected]>) > LPIC-2, NCLP | PGP/GPG Key 0xB82E42D9 > Coordinator for Technology - National Telehealth Center > University of the Philippines Manila > Senior Linux Trainer - International Open Source Network - ASEAN+3 > Ang mundo ay aklat, at iisang pahina lamang ang nababasa ng hindi > naglalakbay. > - San Agustin > わかよたれぞ つねならむ > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- [C] hicken [G] od -=>Hi Tek, Lo Life<=- http://planet-zero.blogspot.com
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