Comments on: On the importance of backups http://blogs.linux.ie/balor/2010/12/02/on-the-importance-of-backups/ We eat cats whilst you code. Thu, 17 May 2012 00:31:11 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: balor http://blogs.linux.ie/balor/2010/12/02/on-the-importance-of-backups/comment-page-1/#comment-81623 balor Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:52:06 +0000 http://blogs.linux.ie/balor/?p=327#comment-81623 It's a cheap NAS box. Built that way on purpose. It's a fanless miniITX system with a big disk and very small power consumption. I've got a 2.5" HD in it too, so _really_ important stuff gets backed up to that. It's a balance of paranoia and cost. I really didn't want another ~10W disk in the machine. It’s a cheap NAS box. Built that way on purpose. It’s a fanless miniITX system with a big disk and very small power consumption. I’ve got a 2.5″ HD in it too, so _really_ important stuff gets backed up to that. It’s a balance of paranoia and cost. I really didn’t want another ~10W disk in the machine.

]]> By: Aindriu http://blogs.linux.ie/balor/2010/12/02/on-the-importance-of-backups/comment-page-1/#comment-81618 Aindriu Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:04:41 +0000 http://blogs.linux.ie/balor/?p=327#comment-81618 Wholeheartedly agreed. A senior IT engineer I worked with had what to me seemed an overcautious attitude to backing up. Before making changes on systems he would do incremental images. He would drop date to usb sticks and take extra images to removable hard drives then plug them into different machines to make sure they were readable. He would export registries and test reimporting. It took me a year to realise what he was doing was just good sense. You don't have any kind of Raid on this NAS machine? From the sounds of it even a Raid 1 would have been a good investment here. Wholeheartedly agreed. A senior IT engineer I worked with had what to me seemed an overcautious attitude to backing up. Before making changes on systems he would do incremental images. He would drop date to usb sticks and take extra images to removable hard drives then plug them into different machines to make sure they were readable. He would export registries and test reimporting.

It took me a year to realise what he was doing was just good sense. You don’t have any kind of Raid on this NAS machine? From the sounds of it even a Raid 1 would have been a good investment here.

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