Disk Death

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:07:22PM -0800, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:58:19PM +1000, Keith Antoine wrote:
> > Kurt Wall wrote:
> >> There I was, happily computing along and downloading a torrent of the  
> >> Fedora 11 alpha when the following occurred:
> 
> [disk death]
> 
> > Kurt,
> >
> > Knowing you and you may years of experience and wisdom one assumes that  
> > you had insurance like a backup !
> > I do rememeber once many years ago, in Caldera days,  being told that I  
> > should have had a backup, by a certain GURU :))
> 
> I don't remember this, but it sounds like the sort of thing I would say. :)
> And, yes, I have a backup. After my last catastrophic failure, I started 
> making regular backups of $HOME, /etc, my databases (/var/lib/pgsql/data), 
> and /var/www.

Using DAR, which I blogged about some time back (http://www.kurtwerks.com/blogwerks/index.php?post=20080429230149).

Kurt
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