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 2EC701384C0 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:11:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CECD2E08A5; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:11:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from resqmta-ch2-01v.sys.comcast.net (resqmta-ch2-01v.sys.comcast.net [69.252.207.33]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BFB7DE0896 for ; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:11:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from resomta-ch2-04v.sys.comcast.net ([69.252.207.100]) by resqmta-ch2-01v.sys.comcast.net with comcast id B5BJ1r0022AWL2D015BMNs; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:11:21 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.2] ([68.60.91.51]) by resomta-ch2-04v.sys.comcast.net with comcast id B5BL1r00b16Uy70015BL3B; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 17:11:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20150830040443.GA1081@ca.inter.net> <8354413.MkAUdyVTWU@wstn> From: Michel Catudal Organization: =?UTF-8?Q?Pas_Organis=c3=a9_par_Ti-Mou?= Message-ID: <55E33929.1090407@comcast.net> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 13:11:05 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux Eniac; Joual; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 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 In-Reply-To: <8354413.MkAUdyVTWU@wstn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=comcast.net; s=q20140121; t=1440954681; bh=i7M8z3zoayv8cwhHIUBsfBaJni/hR2dSrJge2p1diyI=; h=Received:Received:Subject:To:From:Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version: Content-Type; b=RxE3diiccZSr28MMSsWtbWqYu99O2Ys08SDZ0vjtuN56tcJUKKKUSBZ/H83fLKF0N vIVrbw+RpPkaHBX+LpnjGEGx84LNWjl/ZDRGHlcgCo7u5PvBge7xL5Xbh4wLQVAWe8 y+UoQJL1p5lrjXCk1VxFOPQLY1d9fccNyJJzfxwdaM8jnirJiriN6ZqDypzRNvCVht hSvhmwjabs5703a7FhVWA7uWHs07NbCdRF7kcFzNS2KH+S7B7CwfLm0cmYTV8Jh2rM Qszl9KK7p1Ux3wikjK++LAC2vFobcRLIQ2xid/MJ18fOfMZoqO5higIokaNfLgaAB6 wB4sTy+vQv2Og== X-Archives-Salt: 90e55962-c265-4eca-bc02-f81c7ae152e9 X-Archives-Hash: e28d0a8f799c9832164b536da50310e7 Le 2015-08-30 11:56, Peter Humphrey a écrit : > On Sunday 30 August 2015 00:04:43 Philip Webb wrote: >> How long do desktop users typically leave their systems between reboots ? >> How long between power off/on's ? >> >> I've long been in the habit of switching everything off while I sleep, >> then restarting after I've woken & got going again myself. >> However recently, I've run into delays getting my router >> (only 1 device attached) to shake hands successfully with my ISP's server, >> which have been requiring several power off/on's before it works. >> As a result, I've started rebooting only after my weekly system update >> -- it means I get to use the new versions of everything -- >> & not powering off at all ; the monitor + Xscreensaver are off >> whenever I'm away from the machine for >= 1 hr (approx). >> >> Are there any pro's/con's I sb aware of ? > No-one has yet mentioned taking backups. I'm still using a brute-force > approach, in which I shut down each of my two machines once a week to make a > backup to external disk. Otherwise they're on 24 hours a day running BOINC > projects. On the desktop PC kmail makes a daily archive of messages, and once > a day a cron job copies my user directory to /home/.bu/ . > > I know it burns energy but I'm prepared to make my small contribution to what > I think is a good cause. > Backups are vital for a server in company. At work we do a backup every day. At home, it depends how important your stuff is. For pictures you should always copy them on DVD. I regularly backup pictures for people who have ususable windows systems, for them the pictures are the most important stuff but they do not back them up. Personally I don't like to do regular backups because that involves too many DVDs. I probably should do my backups more often. I do have 3 2TB hard disks with important data copied on each for redudancy. I also have some backups on a 500G driver which is not powered usually. I also make some backup on DVDs sometimes. Anything that is of extreme importance I have in several DVDs which I make copies of every few months. I remembered that in the early days of CD that their life was rather limited and am not taking chances on DVD even though I think the technology is a lot better. -- For Linux Software visit http://home.comcast.net/~mcatudal http://sourceforge.net/projects/suzielinux/