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Re: The decline of the dinosaurs?

From Moten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: The decline of the dinosaurs?
Date 2016-07-01 14:54 +0200
Organization Me, Myself and I
Message-ID <1q5i4d-8ht.ln1@sambook.reistad.name> (permalink)
References <nl00hu$l0$1@dont-email.me> <nl3pts2u8c@news4.newsguy.com> <f3eg4d-t85.ln1@sambook.reistad.name> <PM000536927CA3C8D3@aca42375.ipt.aol.com>

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In article <PM000536927CA3C8D3@aca42375.ipt.aol.com>,
jmfbahciv  <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>Morten Reistad wrote:
>> In article <nl3pts2u8c@news4.newsguy.com>,
>> Charlie Gibbs  <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>>On 2016-06-30, Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <sr1anb52gajn518d2gkiplt6l75d88rsqa@4ax.com>,
>>>> Stephen Wolstenholme  <steve@easynn.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 29 Jun 2016 16:22:08 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Like I've been saying for a number of years; "Only store in the cloud
>>>>>> what you can afford to lose or have stolen."
>>>>>
>>>>> I've never used the cloud. I don't see the point in storing ancient
>>>>> messages.
>>>>
>>>> I have backups of mu important documents with three different
>>>> cloud providers. Since it is free, and the chance exists that I may some
>>>> day need it; why not?
>>>
>>>I notice the word "backups" there; presumably your masters are on your
>>>own drives (and backed up offline somewhere).
>>
>> My primary is a 3/4 way mirror of some 1T drives, 2 SATA and the rest
>> USB. One of the drives it to a NFS mount of another raid on another
>> machine in another building. I add another 1T drive there once a week,
>> lets it synchronise overnight; break the raid in a controlled fashion
>> (with a coherent file system) and bring it into the office, taking the
>> old one with me back home.
>>
>> Then, once a quarter or so I update the cloud stuff.
>>
>> So, in total I have 4+1 disks on two machines plus one standalone,
>> and archives at three cloud providers. This is for the important
>> stuff, like family documents, photographs, old film and video.
>>
>> The -relaxed option for raids were a godsend, so I can use the
>> two SATA drives as primaries, and the USB and NFS mounted one can
>> catch up when needed, this way it doesn't bog down.
>>
>> I do keep all my e-mail since 1979, with two month-long holes.
>>
>> I did actually get my systems design tested when they mothballed
>> our Prime machines, but kept them running. They ran, completely
>> unattended, for 7 years before they dropped out. Several disks
>> had failed before then, but that was when the second one of a
>> mirrored pair failed.
>>
>> I expect this setup to be at least as resilient. And then I
>> montitor it extensively weekly, and use it daily.
>
>Using it daily is key; there would have to be a very different
>method if you didn't.  Have you trained anyone to replace you?

Also having icinga test it every 2 minutes. And sending alarms
if it does not work properly.

I have trained replacements twice. There were more than one
in both instances.

-- mrr

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                Re: The decline of the dinosaurs? "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-07-01 14:43 +0100
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                Re: The decline of the dinosaurs? Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-06-30 14:15 +0200
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                Re: The decline of the dinosaurs? jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-07-01 12:49 +0000
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