Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

141027 Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 26 Oct 2014 23:25:50 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> With a caveat: if an ssd dies, it will die suddenly. Without a warning.
> I haven't yet started using SSD and wonder what sort of a system
> should I set up to guard against such instantaneous catastrophic failures.

My desktop machine is now  2 yrs old  & has an SSD for immediate stuff ;
it also has an HHD with  500 GB  available.
Files I'm working on are backed daily to HHD & to USB stick ;
once/week I use a script in Krusader to copy everything in ~ or /etc
which has changed during that week onto HHD & USB
& also to an off-site system I have I/net access to ;
I also run a simple Bash script to rsync system files to an HHD copy.
Every  9 mth  I do a full back-up of everything in ~ or /etc ,
of which I keep at least  1  copy off-site & another on CD (in future DVD)
for when the Earth's poles change & everything magnetic is wiped out (grin).

 2  belts +  3  braces : HTH.

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