[Ham-Computers] Question

[wxfreqrs]

Appreciate it 

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  From: WA5CAB at cs.com 
  To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 9:19 PM
  Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Question


  Don,

  The short answer is no.  There is no way to store anything such that nothing can destroy it.  However, there are degrees of safety.  In general, the greater the distance between the current data and the backup copy, the better.  But before going further, by definition a backup is a current or slightly out of date copy of current information.  By which I mean that if you copy something to some backup location and then delete the original, the backup ceases to be the backup and becomes the original.  Which is a totally different situation.

  So by definition, if you are storing a backup somewhere, and lose the backup, it only matters if you also lose the original.  Of the three scenarios you've listed, the first one only protected you against a corrupted copy of the original.  When the drive failed, you lost both the backup and the original.  But the 2nd and 3rd scenarios should have been only a minor aggrevation in time and money.  You didn't lose anything except the cost and time to replace the second drive or replace the external drive and recreate the backup from the original and otherwise so what.  Slightly less aggrevation than if the drive with the original on it had been the one to fail but otherwise no significant difference.

  As a comment on philosophy, if you live in an area where you could be forced to evacuate on short notice, the external backup drive is probably the better choice, as long as you don't drop it and destroy it.    Our current situation with internal backup drives means that if we had had to bug out back in September, I would have had to either take the entire machine or spend an hour or more removing drives.  Before next hurricane season I plan to fix that problem, probably with a dedicated network drive box Linksys has just come out with.



  In a message dated 11/7/2008 7:30:52 PM Central Standard Time, wxfreqrs at cableone.net writes: 

    G'Day All
    I have a back up storage problem
    Background
    years ago i stored stuff on the same system disk as the os, well i had a 
    hard drive crash lost it all
    them i put in a second Hard drive and back up everything on it, no os just 
    data storage
    it crashed after a few years
    so then i bought a usb external hard drive
    DISASTER i dropped it and cannot access it
    data recovery services might be able to help i don't know

    IS there any way to safe store data that i wont lose it other than a hard 
    copy of everything



  Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
  wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
  MVPA 9480 


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