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Originally posted by Delgarde View PostAlthough despite the name, an SSD isn't actually a disk. It's a bunch of chips, not a spinning platter...
HDD stands for Hard Disk Drives, just as a "The More You Know" type of thing.
Back on topic: he lost less than half of the day's merges. I'm sure he does have a backup on his system, ignoring his quotes, as I only see him complaining about a few Kernel merges and not all of his data (It was his main SSD after all).
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Only wimps use RAID. Real men wait until their only disk fails, and lose their unsaved work, and a few emails, and a few hours trying to fix it, and then order a replacement disk, and wait for it to arrive, and reinstall the OS, and restore data from those off-site FTP mirrors of your data, and say "look, you're just going to have to wait a bit longer".
RAID is more about availability than having a backup. Especially if it's a production system which is an important part of the release process of a major operating system kernel...Last edited by stevenc; 11 September 2013, 07:45 AM.
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You can do asynchronous mirroring using DRBD over tcp/ip, either localy within the same machine (ex: from SSD to SSD, or SSD to HDD) or to an other machine. Linus just would get out and get a new SSD and sync up.
www.drbd.org
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From the lkml thread:
> And may I suggest that you get TWO of them next time and mirror them,
> for just this case? The SysAdmin in my shouting out here...
I long ago gave up on doing backups. I have actively moved to a model
where I use replacable machines instead. I've got the stuff I care
about generally on a couple of different machines, and then keys etc
backed up on a separate encrypted USB key.
And as has been mentioned before, the kernel git mirror functions as a large off-site backup.
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Originally posted by ayandon View PostI hate doing Backup because I used to do backup using Floppy-disks
Then I have to check these Backup disks
Personally, I use clonezilla once every month or 2 and create highly compressed images of all my drives. With the exception of the drive containing all my games and media, I can fit 2 computers and my Windows User's folder on 1 single-layer DVD. I use a separate DVD for all my media (I don't have much), though I should probably use dropbox or something.
Some people have moved on from optical drives but I personally still find them useful!
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