Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread thegeezer
On 06/24/2014 09:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > Don't ignore the potential for logical errors. If you have some script > that magically rsyncs stuff then don't make the mistake of moving data > over and rsyncing the old copy over the new, or mounting the devices > in a manner that isn't robust when u

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > External drives have a much higher failure rate than internal drives. > people don't expect them to fail or be dropped or accidentally plugged > in in the wrong order and the wrong one to be mkfs'ed (until it does > happen). These are real

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/06/2014 20:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Alan McKinnon [14-06-24 20:00]: >> On 24/06/2014 19:32, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> Alan McKinnon [14-06-24 19:12]: On 24/06/2014 16:43, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0,

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread meino . cramer
Alan McKinnon [14-06-24 20:00]: > On 24/06/2014 19:32, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Alan McKinnon [14-06-24 19:12]: > >> On 24/06/2014 16:43, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each > >>> (no SSD - the good ole mech

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/06/2014 19:32, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Alan McKinnon [14-06-24 19:12]: >> On 24/06/2014 16:43, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each >>> (no SSD - the good ole mechanical ones...;). >>> >>> The intended use is f

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:28 AM, wrote: > ...I am sure, whether I want btrfs. On the net I found > for example this: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY1MDU > > with sentences like: > "The Btrfs file-system changes for the Linux 3.15 kernel mostly deal > with bug fixes and p

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread meino . cramer
Alan McKinnon [14-06-24 19:12]: > On 24/06/2014 16:43, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each > > (no SSD - the good ole mechanical ones...;). > > > > The intended use is for backup of longer files. The drives will > > co

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 24/06/2014 16:43, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each > (no SSD - the good ole mechanical ones...;). > > The intended use is for backup of longer files. The drives will > contain the same contents. > > Currently there are

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread thegeezer
On 06/24/2014 04:28 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY1MDU with > sentences like: "The Btrfs file-system changes for the Linux 3.15 > kernel mostly deal with bug fixes and performance fixes while some > corruption fixes are also expected to come.

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread meino . cramer
thegeezer [14-06-24 17:16]: > On 06/24/2014 03:43 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each > > (no SSD - the good ole mechanical ones...;). > > > > The intended use is for backup of longer files. The drives will > > conta

Re: [gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread thegeezer
On 06/24/2014 03:43 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each > (no SSD - the good ole mechanical ones...;). > > The intended use is for backup of longer files. The drives will > contain the same contents. > > Currently there are

[gentoo-user] backup hardware setup

2014-06-24 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I bought two identical external harddrives, USB 3.0, with 1 TByte each (no SSD - the good ole mechanical ones...;). The intended use is for backup of longer files. The drives will contain the same contents. Currently there are still "clean metal" (no partitioning, no fs). Data integrity and