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✔ New Year Resolution: Improve Backups
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<blockquote data-quote="skater" data-source="post: 498187" data-attributes="member: 19158"><p>I had my backup scheme tested the other day. Background: I have a computer in a closet that I call the "server". The server has the media drive in it, a 2 TB drive that holds all of our pictures, videos, etc. It runs Slackware Linux. My backups for pictures include a 2 TB external drive that lives in our travel trailer and gets updated about once every 30 days. I also upload pictures to Amazon's Glacier every so often.</p><p></p><p>A few days ago, I went to copy some new photos to the server and it was showing all kinds of errors. After poking around, I came to the conclusion that the media drive may have failed, so I was starting to try to figure out what, if anything, I had lost. I knew older stuff (a few weeks/months and older) was well backed-up and not a problem, but I was concerned about the newer stuff. In particular, there may have been something that I edited, then copied to the media drive, then removed from the desktop computer, but had not yet been backed up as part of the media drive. In the past, I assumed these would still be available on the desktop computer, but in reality they may not have been there.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately, the drive hadn't failed; the motherboard had. Since I originally thought the drive failed, I bought a 3TB drive to replace it. Now I have a second large drive installed in the desktop computer, which can sync to the server's media drive over the network. I still need to think about the best way to ensure I don't lose that recent stuff, because I'm not sure just automatically backing up to the new drive is the right way to go. (If something goes wacky with the original 2 TB drive, it could copy corrupt data to the 3 TB drive.) Also, the desktop gets shut down when I'm not using it, so that sync wouldn't necessarily happen regularly.</p><p></p><p>I think I need to set up a "staging area" on a separate drive - perhaps the boot drive of the server - that will serve as a holding pen for these newer pictures, before they get copied to the external and 3 TB drives.</p><p></p><p>I'm mainly posting this for two reasons -(1) a warning to think everything through - I still think I have a pretty good backup scheme, and I always knew the new stuff was a potential hole, but the hole was a bit larger than I thought it was. And, (2) to think it through for myself. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skater, post: 498187, member: 19158"] I had my backup scheme tested the other day. Background: I have a computer in a closet that I call the "server". The server has the media drive in it, a 2 TB drive that holds all of our pictures, videos, etc. It runs Slackware Linux. My backups for pictures include a 2 TB external drive that lives in our travel trailer and gets updated about once every 30 days. I also upload pictures to Amazon's Glacier every so often. A few days ago, I went to copy some new photos to the server and it was showing all kinds of errors. After poking around, I came to the conclusion that the media drive may have failed, so I was starting to try to figure out what, if anything, I had lost. I knew older stuff (a few weeks/months and older) was well backed-up and not a problem, but I was concerned about the newer stuff. In particular, there may have been something that I edited, then copied to the media drive, then removed from the desktop computer, but had not yet been backed up as part of the media drive. In the past, I assumed these would still be available on the desktop computer, but in reality they may not have been there. Fortunately, the drive hadn't failed; the motherboard had. Since I originally thought the drive failed, I bought a 3TB drive to replace it. Now I have a second large drive installed in the desktop computer, which can sync to the server's media drive over the network. I still need to think about the best way to ensure I don't lose that recent stuff, because I'm not sure just automatically backing up to the new drive is the right way to go. (If something goes wacky with the original 2 TB drive, it could copy corrupt data to the 3 TB drive.) Also, the desktop gets shut down when I'm not using it, so that sync wouldn't necessarily happen regularly. I think I need to set up a "staging area" on a separate drive - perhaps the boot drive of the server - that will serve as a holding pen for these newer pictures, before they get copied to the external and 3 TB drives. I'm mainly posting this for two reasons -(1) a warning to think everything through - I still think I have a pretty good backup scheme, and I always knew the new stuff was a potential hole, but the hole was a bit larger than I thought it was. And, (2) to think it through for myself. :) [/QUOTE]
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