On Thursday 05 December 2024 12:27:06 pm Donald H Locker via groups.io wrote:
On-site backups on most reliable current technology with off-site backup on a service's storage media. They KNOW how to maintain data forever: swapping storage devices as they age (instead of when they die); storing data on multiple spindles with error detection and correction; testing regularly for data consistency; etc.
If the data are valuable, it's worth the small cost of professional backups.
It's hard to put a cash value on "stuff" that I've collected, but one consideration is the time I have invested. Your comments make me think again about going to some kind of a RAID array, that server case I have sure would accomodate several more drives. It's more a matter of spending the money and setting it up than anything else And then putting some scripts in place to access the S.M.A.R.T. side of each of the drives as a matter of course.
That's about the only practical solution I can see for me, here...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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