[mythtv-users] OT: 3 week old HDD "Clicking" ??

[Gareth Glaccum]

Personally, nowadays I recommend to price-conscious customers not already 
having a tape library/site-wide backup system, to buy a USB->SATA disk 
drive. Back up once a week/month as they feel is necessary, then either keep 
it at home or unplugged in a draw.
Faster than tape (kinda expecting an argument here).
Backups can be rsync'd, so are effectively incremental.
You can get two/three of them and store them for a while

Price isn't that bad I would suspect. Last year, I got myself a 500Gb for 
~£50, when I remember I take backups of my photos onto it (which are already 
on a raid 5, and more often backed up to another raid 5). As the hard disk 
is not plugged in, only a fire, or a massive electrical pulse, like a 
lightning bolt directly hitting the house, is likely to cause much damage 
(and at that point, the wife will moan that I should have backed up to DVD I 
am sure, but at 72GB and growing, that is a pain)
Gareth


>Or, to put it another way: RAID is NOT a substitute for regular backups.
...
>I just wish tape systems with the capacity to back up modern hard drives 
>were
>more reasonably priced. For the cost of a blank DLT tape I can buy a 500GB
>drive.

>I'd like to see a tape system that could hold 1TB per tape, at a reasonable
>price.