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Unless such a backup is versioned it seems all you have is a system that automatically erases your backup one to two hours after a soft failure.
by jmount 16y ago
Unless such a backup is versioned it seems all you have is a system that automatically erases your backup one to two hours after a soft failure.
- redrobot5050 16y agoThis. If your primary drive beings to silently corrupt data due to bad sectors (I've had this happen once. Your system starts to hang, applications start to unexpectedly quit, you start hearing static/clicks in your music, photos seem jaggy even if they were taken with a 10MP DSLR.) you will back up bad/corrupt data over your backed up good data.
- amh 16y agorsync won't delete extra files at the destination unless you tell it to. Although, there's still the problem of syncing corrupted stuff to the mirror. Keeping multiple versions is certainly more robust, in any case.
- jmount 16y agoI was using "erase" figuratively.