On 11/10/2013 7:46 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Bob
>
> I don’t know how much trust you put in hard drives, but if the drives are
> over 2 years old I start to look for new ones. I keep the old ones, of
> course: they have enabled me to restore images files that I had deleted –
> through my own ineptitude, of course.
That's one aspect of using a continuous, background backup scheme. I use
identical drives, one active all the time in
the machine and one only connected when I do a backup. That way, even if a few
years old, the backup drive is only a few
hours of operation old.
Realizing that my boot drive was now several years of heavy operation/use old,
I recently cloned it to its backup
sibling, which had hardly any hours on it, reversing their roles. If I don't
soon get a new machine, I"ll get a new BU
drive.
Call For Backup Moose
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