Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As you have read, some lugger do 2- 3 levels of backup and then stash the hard drives in a vault etc. So it really depends on your comfort level. Fire, earthquakes, anything can happen. For the data on our $dayjob, it's backup'ed to a Buffalo RAID drive and I periodically tarball some of the most important stuff and stash it online somewhere. For my photos, I actually just put another drive in the box and let it run auto-backup. If earthquake or fire hits, I am so hosed on that.... Ah well... On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > Richard, > > Thanks. Yes, I have some paranoia which has served me well (my day job is > tax adviser). Any suggestions? I see B&H has a Drobo 5tb kit for $1,000 - > would that address my inquiry? But then a burglar might swipe the Drobo > unit....don't laugh. My wife was injured in a carjacking while the thug > was trying to steal her Volvo station wagon, a/k/a the > refrigerator....there are desperate folks out there. > > Ken > > > On 3/15/2012 6:17 PM, Richard Man wrote: > >> The long answer is "you don't know." >> >> The short answer ( :-) ) is, use a journaled file system on your back up >> drive, or RAID or something with some sort of redundancy checks. >> >> Individual bit errors can always occur, although when a drive goes, >> usually >> a whole portion will go and you will notice pretty soon, e.g. your backup >> of backup may start to fail. >> >> If you are paranoid, do an equivalent of disk check every week or month or >> whatever. >> >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Ken Carney<kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: >> >> I see from Martin Evening's book that the LR catalog should be backed up >>> manually. I assume this is because it is checking for errors. For other >>> backups, I use SyncBack. It backs up my internal drive with my photos >>> to >>> two external drives each week, at 2 a.m. Then about once a month I back >>> up >>> that internal drive to a third external drive. When the automated backup >>> occurs, how would I know that some internal drive files have not become >>> corrupted, and I am just backing up worthless data? I realize this is a >>> really basic question, but my choices are to ask the our consultants at >>> the >>> firm and probably get deer in the headlights, or get an understandable >>> answer from the LUG. Thanks! >>> >>> Ken >>> >>> ______________________________****_________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See >>> http://leica-users.org/****mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug> >>> <http://**leica-users.org/mailman/**listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>>for >>> more information >>> >>> >> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>