Backups and why you should do them...

[Shorty]

... I just lost a 120GB Maxtor. It's not even two years old :(

It was one of the drives in my server, ran all my VMware virtual machines and had about 60GB of data on it.

I backup nightly to a 250GB mirror (raid-1) array.

Last few days, I've noticed some serious performance problems with my vm's.

Simple enough really but when it happens.. Im utterly grateful for backups. I could have just lost my SQL, web servers, email servers and alot of crucial data :eek: (including the in-development PHP5 short-media code) :eek:

[QCH]

Good forethought, Shorty. Glad you didn't lose any data but sorry your 120 GB died.

[Shorty]

Id rather spend two days rebuilding my servers and so on then restoring from backups.. then lose all what I could have lost :)

[Tex]

The lost art of backups...

And I am so sick of hearing... "But it was an almost new drive". As many fail in the first 120 days as in the first year. The average life span for a IDE drive is probably less then 3 years these days. The increased aureal densitys are not helping either.

Good grief. I once had a fairly well known engineer try and compare the technology in todays hard drives to an airplane circling the earth at a thousand miles an hour HALF AN INCH off the ground continually without ever touching, day after day....

And no I am not ragging on you shorty. YOU knew better and did what I would of expected.

You were trained well Obi Wan. May the force always be with you.

Tex

[bothered]

Another trip to Micro Direct then? You'll be invited to the staff party at this rate.
:)

[Shorty]

They have already offered me an account ;D