Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (671 mails)

[Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yea, more than RAID the best plan is to have good backups and even
more important is a tested disaster recovery plan. Buy some blank hard
drives and spend a holiday weekend testing "what if" we have a total
data loss. In the long run IMO it will be more valuable than any RAID.
I'll stick to taking full disk images and the like, but some people
will go as far as storing their configs in a version management system
like CVS.

As far as I can tell Time Machine on MacOS is nothing more than rsync
with a pretty interface and the usual Apple
let's-make-this-proprietary-but-sort-of-open way of doing things. If
you look at what they are doing as a whole you'll see what I mean,
even my iPhone is just a little UNIX-like machine, all the voicemail.
contacts, etc are stored in sqlite databases, but they always add
their bit of proprietary stuff so it won't out-of-the-box
interoperable. E.g. iTunes, AFP, etc.
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