A disturbingly large number of my friends play a facebook game called FarmVille. As far as good games go its an absolute shocker but give people high score lists with their friends on it and tacked on features like gift giving and you've got a hit on your hands.
Yeah I think you're right in that it comes down to what you're backing up. My actual work is backed up in multiple places (and yes, of course I use version control for that) but RAID 1 is just so convenient for my collection of downloaded movies etc. The fact that its mirrored without any intervention from me is nice.
Also, good luck rebuilding that RAID if your MOTHERBOARD fails...
I use software raid (on linux) so I'm not paying for an expensive RAID controller or anything like that.
If I were managing a business with large amounts of critical data, I would obviously do it differently because the points you make about fire and accidental damage are important points. The thing is, I think there are varying levels of data importance. That's all I'm really trying to say.
There's about 50 posts in this thread saying over and over again that RAID is not a backup solution and I've heard it plenty of times before as well. What are some actual solid reasons why RAID is a bad backup?
Your backup solution sounds incredible and very robust but also very very expensive. My data is important, but not THAT important! My ultra important data - my own code - doesn't take up much space and is easy to backup all over the place. The rest of my data took a long time to gather and it is important to me but I can't justify spending that sort of money to back it up properly.
A RAID 1 solution seems like quite a fitting one to me. I recognise that it's not as good as your solution, but on my budget it does the job. If a hard disk fails which has happened to me (damn Seagate firmware) my RAID 1 can rebuild all my data.
I agree, but there is one thing Acrobat does that the other free PDF viewers I have tried don't do as well. Zooming.
Poppler and xpdf can only zoom to 400% where as Acrobat can go much further. Its rarely a problem but once I got a pdf which had 10 pages compacted into 1 and I had to view it on my friend's windows machine. (I'm not installing that Acrobat crap on my pc)
I think he has a good point. One we already knew, but good none the less.
I have just completed two years of a Software Engineering degree and it really was an easy two years with nothing all that challenging presented. I have friends getting good marks which really aren't that good (hope you guys aren't reading..)
Software Engineering has apparently been said to be the hardest form of Engineering around because it's so hard to wright a program of significant size which is bug free. If structural engineers building bridges had as many bugs in their work as software engineers have in theirs, the world would be a very unsafe place.
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A disturbingly large number of my friends play a facebook game called FarmVille. As far as good games go its an absolute shocker but give people high score lists with their friends on it and tacked on features like gift giving and you've got a hit on your hands.
You're completely right. Who modded this flamebait?
Why are so many victimless crimes still illegal in this day and age? Surely we can learn lessons from the past and fix up the laws today.
a second hard disk, externally, and rsync run via cron a few times a day, with history enabled, is a better solution and less impact on your I/O.
That's good advice. If I were setting this up from scratch I'd probably do that (and may still).
Also, good luck rebuilding that RAID if your MOTHERBOARD fails...
I use software raid (on linux) so I'm not paying for an expensive RAID controller or anything like that.
If I were managing a business with large amounts of critical data, I would obviously do it differently because the points you make about fire and accidental damage are important points. The thing is, I think there are varying levels of data importance. That's all I'm really trying to say.
There's about 50 posts in this thread saying over and over again that RAID is not a backup solution and I've heard it plenty of times before as well. What are some actual solid reasons why RAID is a bad backup?
Your backup solution sounds incredible and very robust but also very very expensive. My data is important, but not THAT important! My ultra important data - my own code - doesn't take up much space and is easy to backup all over the place. The rest of my data took a long time to gather and it is important to me but I can't justify spending that sort of money to back it up properly.
A RAID 1 solution seems like quite a fitting one to me. I recognise that it's not as good as your solution, but on my budget it does the job. If a hard disk fails which has happened to me (damn Seagate firmware) my RAID 1 can rebuild all my data.
The problem is, they arn't going to. They have no reason to.
We need to show these companies that we arn't going to put up with proprietary protocols by not buying the devices in the first place.
You need to speak with your wallet. It's the only thing capitalists understand.
If they let you adopt a whole function or even a whole class, this could be a cool way of not only making money but also minimising bugs.
People who adopt are likely going to read the code they get so this is a good way to get lots of eyes on the source.
Just a thought..
I agree, but there is one thing Acrobat does that the other free PDF viewers I have tried don't do as well. Zooming.
Poppler and xpdf can only zoom to 400% where as Acrobat can go much further. Its rarely a problem but once I got a pdf which had 10 pages compacted into 1 and I had to view it on my friend's windows machine. (I'm not installing that Acrobat crap on my pc)
A bacon sword is one thing. A bacon AK-47 is another.
I'm confused. Is the problem the deteriorating hardware or an unsuitable filesystem?
No I didn't RTA..
Yeah, you heard me.
I think he has a good point. One we already knew, but good none the less. I have just completed two years of a Software Engineering degree and it really was an easy two years with nothing all that challenging presented. I have friends getting good marks which really aren't that good (hope you guys aren't reading..) Software Engineering has apparently been said to be the hardest form of Engineering around because it's so hard to wright a program of significant size which is bug free. If structural engineers building bridges had as many bugs in their work as software engineers have in theirs, the world would be a very unsafe place.
Awww, that'll never work on linux..
data mining is ineffective as a tactic against terrorism
Don't be silly. Everyone knows terrorists don't use encryption..