[buug] Backups [Was: Trapped in Upgrade Hell]

[James Howard]

Fair enough Johan. I guess it really depends on the particulars of the 
setup.

FWIW: On my home system, I have /home and /var on a RAID-1 mirror.  Files
from /home, /var /etc, and some others are backed up fully and
incrementally to an alternating pair of removable ide drives. I have 
roughly 4 copies of my data at various states to protect against both 
mechanical failure, and to a lesser extent, other types of loss.

In the end, I found the cheap ide drive solution to be faster, more cost 
effective, and convenient than a more stable (albeit expensive) tape 
solution.

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, f.johan.beisser wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, James Howard wrote:
> 
> > This isn't an open source issue.
> 
> agreed. but, the "ease of replacement" goes beyond just simple media.
> ideally you'd have a simple method to replace it. the simpler, the better.
> 
> as a user, i find it frustrating to be forced in to rebuilding a machine
> from scratch. maybe it's a result of my generation (MTV has corrupted us
> for instant gratification), but really, who wants to deal with switching
> out media and reinstalling every single piece of software installed on any
> machine?
> 
> 1 major backup, restore from incrementals. it's simpler, faster, and
> easier to do than deal with installing (or worse, rebuilding) lost
> packages. in a corparate environment, the "gradual rebuild" of a system is
> not really acceptable.
> 
> > Again, this isn't an open source issue. If you have a license with
> > Autodesk for their product, you would likely have the install media. If
> > your install media were lost, I imagine they could provide you with a
> > replacement at a nominal charge.
> 
> many companies (Autodesk excluded, by the way) will want full price for
> the replacement of lost media. i know, this is bullshit, but they do.
> 
> ANYHOW, this thread has degenerated well past what it started as. i'll
> stop here.
> 
> -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+
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