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Data Storage

Submission + - Why power failures can always lead to data-loss (halfgaar.net)

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bigsmoke
bigsmoke writes: "So, all your servers run on RAID. You backup religiously. You're even sure that your backups are recoverable. But do you also need a UPS? According to Halfgaar (on /. before to promote better Linux backup practices), yes, usually you do. He argues that despite technological advancements such as file system journaling, power failures can still cause data loss in most setups."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Backing up a Linux system

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bigsmoke
bigsmoke writes: "My buddy Halfgaar finally got sick of all the helpful users on forums and mailing lists who keep suggesting backup methods and strategies to others which simply don't, won't and can't work. According to him, this indicates that most of the backups made by Un*x users simply won't help you recover, while you'd think that disaster recovery is the whole point of doing backups. So, now he explains to the world once and for all what's involved in backing up *nix systems."

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