Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/27

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Subject: [Leica] Computer help!!!
From: spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)
Date: Wed Jul 27 15:07:41 2005
References: <20050727173548.19139.qmail@web33603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Roland,

Yes it was a S/W development company. I assume most photographer  
can't afford to install replicated file servers (or pro photographers  
make a lot more money than I thought. :-) though they may have  
several computers around the workplace/home that they can use for  
backup.

In any case, I don't trust RAID. At the same company, I had a RAID  
controller fail on me and scrambling all the contents. The only thing  
that saved us from take a major productivity hit was the 2 hourly  
sync disk I kept under my desk.

It should be noted that most, the emphasize on most, disks will fail  
long after they become obsolete. I still have a 150 MB and 2GB hard  
disk. Does anyone want it?

Regards,
Spencer

On Jul 27, 2005, at 13:35, Der Eiserne Reiter wrote:

> all the things you did are still very common in typical software  
> development
> environments today. The only difference is that, with RAID, disk  
> failures/
> redundancy is handled transparently, and file-servers can be  
> configured
> to do what you did out of the box (except for the tape backup). Today,
> the hourly and nightly backups are done so that people can recover
> from human (mostly their own) mistakes.
>
> Also, it is good advice to store your weekly/monthly backups in a  
> different physical
> location.
>

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