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I'm so looking forward to the Seagate 8TB Archive HDD. Finally a drive that will hold all my photos and quite a bit more. It will make my backup procedure a who
by unicornporn 12y ago
I'm so looking forward to the Seagate 8TB Archive HDD. Finally a drive that will hold all my photos and quite a bit more. It will make my backup procedure a whole lot easier.
- medecau 12y agoIt's also a single basket for all your eggs.
- ghshephard 12y agoAs the original poster noted, sometimes it's far better to have a single basket for your eggs, that you keep well backed up, than it is to have multiple baskets, none of which are backed up.
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- pjc50 12y agoRelated ask HN to you and others: what software are you using to backup/sync to that drive? (What would you use on Windows?)
- flyinghamster 12y agoI can't speak for Windows, but the setup where I work involves four drives (currently 2 TB each), with three running as a triple-mirror ZFS pool. For backup, I split a drive off the pool, pull it, slide in the previous backup, and resilver the newly-inserted drive. Each time, I use a different drive bay. The ZFS pool itself provides backup for several other systems, and snapshots are made periodically by a cron job to provide a further line of defense.
- arm 12y agoI use OS X on my main computer, so I haven’t used this personally, but Bvckup 2 was mentioned on HN in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8027405 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8027405
- unicornporn 12y agoRsync. I don't think I'd recommend that on Windows though.
- IgorPartola 12y agoHere's what I use, though with different drives: Ubuntu + ZFS + rsnapshot. Works well, mostly declaratively configured, and ZFS means I don't have to worry about bit rot. It has its gotchas, for sure, but if you want your data to stay intact, this is the thing to use.