thank the goddess for BIG STONKING DISKS

[tyggerjai]

So Ben, last night, painstakingly dd'd the entire 18 gig /usr partition from fatcat, 2 gig at a time (file size limitations), over *5* hours onto another drive.

I'm now running strings over it. And may be for days. And I may not get much of it back.

But there's hope :)

sol.
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Comments

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Isn't this pretty much what backups were invented for?

(Why, no, I don't back up much of my home data, but then most of the stuff I care about is on absinthe, which *is* backed up. Off-site, even.)

Well, yes.

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

And it's always so clever in hindsight :)

Backups are why it's only 1 years worth of mail.
And, apparently, my .muttrc, but not my vimrc, tcshrc, bin directory, sigfile, etc. So I'll be getting a couple of cheap cD burners for the servers - $65 a pop, no excuse not to.

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my procmail recipes the most, though.
Now mail just, like, shows up in my mailbox, and it has CrackMonkey all over it.
And that stuff's tough to scrape off, let me tell you.

sol.
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Backups?

[longi.livejournal.com]

At least count there were at least at least 6 tape drives in our house.

How much do you need to back up regularly?

A cd worth.

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

There's even a 2 gig tape drive in kittling, but it's a pain in the arse :)
CD burners are vastly more practical - system to tape, incrementals to CD. It's really just for email and code, so a CD every week or two would be fine.

The tape drives are just too damn slow - the 2 gig tape on kittling takes 8 hours to fill.

sol.
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