[dba-Tech] Local storage, backups, SSD questions

[Jon Tydda]

In my desktop I have a 500gb SSD C: drive, a 2TB D: drive and a 4TB E:
drive. Every month or so I run a script that backs up C & D to E (only
copying files that are newer, or that don't exist in the destination), and
then does the same to backup E to my Western Digital MyCloud 6TB NAS which
is in the garage (so, it's my "offsite" backup).


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of Helmut
Kotsch
Sent: 24 August 2020 12:46
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Local storage, backups, SSD questions

That is what I am doing.
Have two 3TB hard drives installed in my system for data storage.
Each drive is partitioned as 3 logical drives with 1 TB.
Synchronize them daily with the following software. Free for private use.

https://www.ascompsoftware.com/en/products/show/php/prog/prog/synchredible/p
roduct/synchredible/tab/

or

https://tinyurl.com/y3rqobc9

Works like a charm for years.

Helmut

 

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Von: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] Im Auftrag von
Arthur Fuller
Gesendet: Montag, 24. August 2020 04:42
An: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Betreff: Re: [dba-Tech] Local storage, backups, SSD questions

Thanks for the tips guys.


On Sun., Aug. 23, 2020, 9:14 p.m. Gary Kjos, <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Buy a second 3TB drive and copy the entire contents of the one in use
> to that.   Putting that new drive in a "Docking Station" will allow
> for multiple backups. The docking stations can plug in via USB or 
> other connection methods depending on what the existing system can 
> use.  Spinning drives are very inexpensive now and are much more 
> trustworthy than SSD drives.  You don't need the highest performing 
> drive for backup purposes either.  Slower RPM and transfer rates would 
> work fine for a backup.  Nothing is completely without chance of 
> failure of course so having multiple generations of backup would be 
> desirable.
>
> GK
>
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 6:39 PM Arthur Fuller 
> <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Not that I'm expert in hardware, but it seems to me that hard disks 
> > are
a
> > thing of the past; given the size and price and speed of SSDs, the 
> > hard disk seems doomed. Add to that cloud technology. Factor in the
plummeting
> > cost/storage ratio of hard disks (3TB seems to becoming the standard).
> Let
> > us suppose that, like my friend Douglas, you like to store movies on
your
> > hard drives. He has at least 1000 movies stored on a few drives. How 
> > is
> it
> > possible to back all that up. It would cost you lots to use the cloud.
> > As the numbers go up, my comprehension seems to go down. My friend 
> > is
> just
> > a consumer, not a professional. Let's assume that he has 3TB of data 
> > he wants to back up. He looks to me for advice and I have no idea 
> > what to suggest.
> > Any advice would be most gratefully received.
> >
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