From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D522F138956 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:28:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07BC9E0986; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:28:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 14F52E093E for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:28:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE0772EA004 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:28:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id q2VBdchEcjy8 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:28:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ca.inter.net (host-192.252-169-237.dyn.295.ca [192.252.169.237]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 406BD2EA34C for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:27:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:27:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 08:27:58 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss Message-ID: <20141027122758.GB1022@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <201410270924.40381.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201410270924.40381.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Archives-Salt: 924826ad-3288-427c-a0f8-ba4b589a8b39 X-Archives-Hash: f884aefdb9c08c655484de4717d1cc67 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. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca