[Novalug] Hard Drive Data Recovery

[Ed T. Toton III]

Thus spake Angelo Bertolli:

> Hmmm, that's a good point.  I was only thinking about the problems I 
> have due to a bad environment, not about failure.  What about another 
> trade-off between space (that I'm not using) and reliability:  other 
> partitions that serve as an rsync backup?  Would I gain reliability with 
> that?
>
> Or more to the point:  how do I get my money's worth out of a 160G 
> drive?  ;)

I'm a big fan of rsync-backups. You can cron a nightly rsync pretty 
easily. Best of all, it helps protect you from yourself... if you catch 
mistakes within the day they occur, you can easily recover. Easiest, of 
course, is to sync to another partition on the disk. However, I've also 
had a few machines configured to sync to each other's left over space, so 
if a disk fails in one, it has a backup on another box.

Of course, you can also change your log rotation schedule and keep more 
logs. That'll use some of the space up too. :)



Hah, my random .sig is oddly appropriate...


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Airplane Rule:
 	Complexity increases the possiblity of failure; a twin
 	engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a
 	single-engine airplane.

 	(therefore the correct way to build a reliable system is
 	to put all your eggs in one really *good* basket)