From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NBBb1-0005sU-OO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:19:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 634C6E0B46; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:18:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48DFFE0B46 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:18:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29276C1054 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:18:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:18:29 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=7ha9Lxb7vqlx0oSk9U02vZTofDI=; b=em5Idkjw3AwoZTcHMZXpHrbSA6iGS077bQThEdqezTOI997KiYf6NbtOT9UxAYvJV0uQlkM+cjh9ynFBMhvhboVyGIcGvSHresZtAlybWbTOdnenI4iweDcTwifnwalZs61ppad7PzIRsMLxhzGPfTLjiq4KeXg9PUb3np2iz2Y= X-Sasl-enc: 9gqTnWKmg4FP59Gl3WJEziZpA3V0jeqhjxZXt2C1AECm 1258654708 Received: from [192.168.31.12] (cpe-069-134-183-088.nc.res.rr.com [69.134.183.88]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D02AD104E1 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:18:28 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rsync backup system From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1258653500.169135.45.camel@centar> References: <49bf44f10911190844i5cb77185me60d5eb44ff2bfc7@mail.gmail.com> <1258653500.169135.45.camel@centar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:18:27 -0500 Message-ID: <1258654707.169135.57.camel@centar> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e0afebe6-a3f4-4f0f-a1f3-c81c8079ae32 X-Archives-Hash: 1f39a0d637aa5d965b6786b413a0178e On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:58 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > > 4. Should I be comfortable running the entire sync operation every > > night, or am I jeopardizing the longevity of my HDs? > > > This is a joke. I should apologize and explain this better. If you bought a fancy expensive hard drive then it's probably designed for extremely heavy use and comes with nice coverage by the guy that sold it to you. But since you ask this question I'll assume that it's not the case. Ok so you bought a relatively cheap heard drive. But the question seems irrelevant. Because these are cheap, mass-produced hard drives you could do absolutely nothing with them and they could still die tomorrow. That's the price you pay for cheaper drives. Cheap hard drives are like life. Life is cheap. You could take all kinds of precautions and still die tomorrow. But your drive is cheap and easily replaced (esp. if it's still under warranty). Your data on the other hand is not. I'd rather have a dead drive with the data backed up than a dead drive with no backup. Drives are so cheap nowadays it's a non-issue. I'm actually hoping my 2-year old drive dies soon because it will give me an excuse to go out and buy a *bigger* one for the same price. But I feel comfortable with that because I keep backups.