*This Reply from / Antwort von / Antwoord van:* LLLActive@GMX.Net - 2011-06-11 - 16:28:38 -0400 Yes, does this *Nix basis not make it quit cute? When will M$ dump their basis (attempt to be an OS) and just develop their GUI onto a Linux box? Eye candy is their strength, but their OS is just too bad for words. *Original sent by / Original von / Oorspronklik van:* joakimsen@gmail.com - Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:21:07 -0400
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, can you restore single files without unpacking the image? Or are you satisfied just to restore the image? What do you use, dd or ddrescue?
but some people will go as far as storing their configs in a version management system like CVS. haven't thought about this one yet - interesting Idea ... As far as I can tell Time Machine on MacOS is nothing more than rsync The rsync method is used by some opensource backup concepts, which seems quite good. I just need some experience reports and/or comments. 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 yea, hard to admit that opensource is superior to decades of developed closed source by Apple in the end; it was a clever move though. Sales rocketed afterwards. stuff so it won't out-of-the-box interoperable. E.g. iTunes, AFP, etc.
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