From: Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject: Re: My First HDD Failure (I Think)
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:33:49 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:

> 
> So does one modify the backup every day, at the end of each day? Then 
> you're endangering your back up cause you're messing with it too often 
> and it may crash one day. It will in fact.
> 
> To get around that, you'd have to do entire back ups everyday, each on a 
> new media, and never touch them unless you have to. Putting these entire 
> backups on the same media is still dangerous.
> 
> I bet this is what those who are serious about it do. They have the 
> money and they have the men to spend hours each day backing up data, 
> perhaps even creating multiple copies on different media in case 
> something happens to one of them.
>

Then you have to go the high end RAID route, just like vallor described
in one of his posts.

With a 22T drive RAID you can backup continuously.





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