I use robocopy on Windows, it's a lot like rsync. With vshadow+robocopy you can back up a live Windows computer just like you can do to on a Linux box with an rsync script:
Yep for this guy's uses, since he needs to run backups so regularly, an ideal system would be to have an always-on backup with snapshots on a RAID1 array, which can then be backed up to external drives in case of virus/fire/extreme stupidity.
Turned out that the IT guy liked to throw the tapes up in the air (only about a foot or two), and then catch them. He didn't drop them or anything, but that was enough to cause regular backup failures.
I'll keep that in mind 8-(
Tossing tapes is a bit questionable but anyone who tosses hard drives is a total moron.
True. Cloud backups could be a decent offsite disaster recovery option, but for regular backups, they're a total joke. The bandwidth just isn't sufficient.
Flash drives? Flash drives can fail in ways that make the data absolutely unrecoverable, they have a relatively low capacity and are expensive at any meaningful capacity. Better than tape, maybe, but better than hard drives?
FWIW: We use the cheapest 2.5" laptop drives available, in the cheapest bus-powered 2.5" USB enclosures we can get our hands on (I think the last round of them cost us $5, each).
Did you look at using trayless hot-swappable drive racks? They're very handy, you just plug the bare drive in and away you go at full SATA speed.
I was thinking that rubber (or some other flexible material) boots could be put over the joints, and they wouldn't be as susceptible to dust as bearing seals.
When I was a kid we were banned from throwing snowballs in the winter. They told us there could be a piece of ice inside that would take someone's eye out.
So the snowball fights had to wait until after school:-(
The one I'm wearing now is water resistant to 50M and my less-formal watch is water resistant to 200M and also shock resistant, and it tells me the time and date with nice big letters and has an EL backlight. Together they're less than $200.
The company said it will use a mix of industrial astronauts and advanced robotic systems to provide a strategically-assured, continuous supply of propellants for spacecraft."
They made some cool PDA-watches that ran PalmOS in the early 2000s. I thought about buying one, but I can never come up with a good use for a computer with a screen literally the size of a postage stamp, while I'm already carrying a regular-sized PDA around...
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Yes but rm skips right past it. Only the file browser (which includes the desktop and app file dialogues) uses it.
I use robocopy on Windows, it's a lot like rsync. With vshadow+robocopy you can back up a live Windows computer just like you can do to on a Linux box with an rsync script:
http://ithelp.cveg.uark.edu/IT_Help/Documents_files/backup.pdf
Yep for this guy's uses, since he needs to run backups so regularly, an ideal system would be to have an always-on backup with snapshots on a RAID1 array, which can then be backed up to external drives in case of virus/fire/extreme stupidity.
Turned out that the IT guy liked to throw the tapes up in the air (only about a foot or two), and then catch them. He didn't drop them or anything, but that was enough to cause regular backup failures.
I'll keep that in mind 8-(
Tossing tapes is a bit questionable but anyone who tosses hard drives is a total moron.
Let's say your typical tower server will cost you $2k, and it costs another $500 to stuff it full of hot-swap bays. Very high estimates.
Still cheaper than the tape drive, and with each HDD holding easily more than twice the capacity of a tape, you're less likely to need a jukebox.
True. Cloud backups could be a decent offsite disaster recovery option, but for regular backups, they're a total joke. The bandwidth just isn't sufficient.
Flash drives? Flash drives can fail in ways that make the data absolutely unrecoverable, they have a relatively low capacity and are expensive at any meaningful capacity. Better than tape, maybe, but better than hard drives?
FWIW: We use the cheapest 2.5" laptop drives available, in the cheapest bus-powered 2.5" USB enclosures we can get our hands on (I think the last round of them cost us $5, each).
Did you look at using trayless hot-swappable drive racks? They're very handy, you just plug the bare drive in and away you go at full SATA speed.
I was thinking that rubber (or some other flexible material) boots could be put over the joints, and they wouldn't be as susceptible to dust as bearing seals.
When I was a kid we were banned from throwing snowballs in the winter. They told us there could be a piece of ice inside that would take someone's eye out.
So the snowball fights had to wait until after school :-(
Ball-bearing variable geometry turbos means little lag no matter what you do with the clutch.
The one I'm wearing now is water resistant to 50M and my less-formal watch is water resistant to 200M and also shock resistant, and it tells me the time and date with nice big letters and has an EL backlight. Together they're less than $200.
Fools and their money...
HNNNGGG NERDGASM!
Oh holy shit 8-(
And I thought the $30k watches were crazy...
Assuming wheels are right out, maybe we've finally found a practical use for legged vehicles?
No that would be "Phallustron" :-P
(I know it sounds weird if you're used to Spanish names, but in Japan it's not unusual for women to have first names ending with "o")
Especially reading this part:
The company said it will use a mix of industrial astronauts and advanced robotic systems to provide a strategically-assured, continuous supply of propellants for spacecraft."
Uh huh...does that look anything like this?
Honda's demonstration robot is Asimo. Assimo, I'm guessing, will be one of the first mass-produced fembot sex toys.
Look, I'm good at doing stuff first, send me!
You know, it's always assumed that the Antikythera mechanism's housing looked something like this:
http://images.gizmag.com/inline/hublot-antikythera-mechanism-first-computer-watch-14.png
But who says the corners couldn't have been rounded?
The ancient Greeks will have some serious royalties to cough up after all this time...
You do know this watch would not cost under 5 digits right? I wouldn't be surprised if they charged $30k for it.
Yep this is far from the first replica, but it's the first one I've seen made so tiny.
They made some cool PDA-watches that ran PalmOS in the early 2000s. I thought about buying one, but I can never come up with a good use for a computer with a screen literally the size of a postage stamp, while I'm already carrying a regular-sized PDA around...
That must mean I'm a genius! Look at my name. I play games a lot.
Good points but I think you got whooshed XD