[plug] More Bad Sectors...

[LineOne]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Phillips" <T.Phillips at murdoch.edu.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 3:36 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] More Bad Sectors...


> On Tuesday 04 February 2003 02:54, LineOne wrote:
> > I had the same prob, same make of drive, so I put SuSE 7.3 on it,  and
an
> > additional fan installed, must be over a year ago now, not a glitch?  I
> > still make regular backups, but should'nt one always?  I have always
used
> > reiserfs having had a bad experience years ago with Redhat 6.? and ext2.
>
> Can you undelete files on ReiserFS? That's what I miss going from ext2 to
ext3
> - every now and again, being able to undelete an "oh bugger" is useful.
^_^


Traditionally, undelete is not supported on any Unix filesystem. But I have
used it on ext2, I don't know if reiser is special in this regard but I
seriously doubt it.

> Backups? Ha! How? ^_^ (I mean, from a non-rich home situation). Gone are
the
> days when you could back up your HDD to a CD or two... Even backing up to
DVD
> is impractical. And tapes suck from my experience (although using
second-hand
> HW & media probably doesn't help).

Also being a home user, I only use a couple of CDRW's to back up data, and
configs.  The original drive in question I only use as a slave, that is
because of the original flakiness of it.  I should have made that more clear
on the original posting.

>
> It seems these days the most practical backup is doubling HDD capacity,
and
> either rsync-ing or RAID-ing - but that doubles the cost (or halves the
> capacity). ^_^
>
> Yes, in a perfect world, everything would be backed up reliably and
> efficiently.

depends on how valuable your data is?

>
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