Re: What logs etc do I need to checkfrequently?

From: Jerry McAllister (jerrymc_at_clunix.cl.msu.edu)
Date: 12/29/03

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    To: freebsd@dagerot.nu (Joachim Dagerot)
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:01:00 -0500 (EST)

    >
    > As you with good memories know, I lost 3000 pictures of my first sons
    > first year this month. I did have a RAID-5 system with fresh disks,
    > however, *** happens and I have a feeling that this could have been
    > avoided if I read my log files better.
    >

    As has been mentioned, if you have critical or irreplaceable data, back
    it up. If your partitions are too large for any backup system you
    can use, then make a scheme for breaking the data in to more manageable
    sized partitions - use more partitions and even more slices and disk
    devices if needed. Those huge raid partitions are nice for some
    things, but have their drawbacks.

    You can get backup devices - LTO and high end DLT that hold up to 160
    or more uncompressed, so that is a good single sized partition. They
    are expensive, but not compared to losing your data.

    Also, you are supposed to be able to use more than one tape in a backup.
    I don't know how well that works in FreeBSD dump/restore. I don't have
    a big enough disk under FreeBSD to make it go to more than one tape yet.
    But, I have successfully dumped partitions that needed up to 10 DAT tapes
    before on other UNIX systems.

    ////jerry

    > So basically,
    >
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