[mythtv-users] Is upgrading an ancient system using apt-get recommended?

Rudy Zijlstra mythtv at grumpydevil.homelinux.org
Sun Jun 3 08:24:41 UTC 2007


Brian Wood wrote:
> David Schmidt wrote:
>   
>> [this part in response to Brian, as well]
>> Well, it's not stuff I'm not caught up on, it's stuff I want to keep.
>> Recipes from cooking shows I haven't had time to pause every few
>> seconds to transcribe to paper (my other hobby is cooking),
>> performances of music, etc. that aren't available for sale yet, etc.
>>     
>
> "Keeping" stuff on a hard drive might not be the best idea. Every hard
> drive ever made will fail, maybe in ten years, or perhaps tomorrow.
>
> So to be safe you should backup whatever you want to keep somehow, the
> easiest might be to burn it to DVDs. You could also back it up to
> another drive, perhaps a USB-connected external one, but that will fail
> eventually as well.
>
> Storing anything you "want to keep" on an un-backed-up hard drive is
> asking for trouble. You are essentially gambling on when the drive will
> fail.
>
> BEWW
>
>   
Keeping it on DVD is also not safe. Many DVD will not keep much past 10 
year...

My personal solution is to store on 2 separate raid systems, who are 
physically apart (even different buildings), so i  can repare where needed.

Rudy


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