On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 12:12:07AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > You can disagree as much as you like, but with the size of drives and > the current error rate of consumer hard drives it is not a question of > 'if' but just a matter of 'when'.
It's not just the drive; it's the entire PC. My main desktop at home has had a few panics recently. It's several years old, and I'll be getting rid of it, because I can't really trust it. I've switched to my "hot backup", and am currently setting up a new machine as the new "hot backup". After doing the initial Gentoo install, I copied over the config files, with appropriate changes. I copied /var/lib/portage/world and launched "emerge --changed-use --deep --update @world". A few minutes ago, emerge was on package 228 of 337. I have 3 USB backup drives and I use them all. This does not include the monthly copying over of /home/waltdnes and /home/misc from the main desktop to the "hot backup". BTW, this is probably the first email sent out from this machine to the Gentoo list. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
