Backups and why you should do them...
Shorty
Manchester, UK Icrontian
... 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
(including the in-development PHP5 short-media code)
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
(including the in-development PHP5 short-media code) 0
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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