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Been sorting my pc's out this week.
« on: 30 January 2009, 22:07:59 »
Retired an old Dell.
Added a 1TB sata disk to a 2.8Ghz desktop (£99, wasnt too bad) so now has a 160GB sata disk partitioned as 20GB for XP and 140GB for programs. The 1TB disk is purely for storage.
And also fixed my lappy, which kept giving the blue screen of death on a regular basis....like every 5 mins  ;D
Rebuilt it....still did it......so started swapping hardware.....turned out to be the 256M mem simm......so £28 for a new 256M simm sorted that (would have put bigger in, but 256 is the biggest it can take) Would have stayed with the 128M i originally swapped the faulty simm with but it ran like a slug in a coma  ::) ;D

Just been wondering whats the best way to (and cheapest) to back up a 1TB disk???  :-/ (Its already got over 300G of data on it)
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Re: Been sorting my pc's out this week.
« Reply #1 on: 30 January 2009, 22:17:42 »
lto3 can throw 400G (uncompressed) onto a tape...  ...a nice little lto3 library will sort you out ;D

Can't really think of a decent, foolproof, reliable backup strategy for that amount of data - I have similar backup issues myself, with simiilar amount of data (1TB)
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« Reply #2 on: 30 January 2009, 22:38:25 »
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lto3 can throw 400G (uncompressed) onto a tape...  ...a nice little lto3 library will sort you out ;D

Can't really think of a decent, foolproof, reliable backup strategy for that amount of data - I have similar backup issues myself, with simiilar amount of data (1TB)


I suppose one answer would be to add another 1TB and mirror them, however my mobo can only take 2 sata disks......so im a bit stuck with that idea.. :-/
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Re: Been sorting my pc's out this week.
« Reply #3 on: 30 January 2009, 22:42:20 »
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lto3 can throw 400G (uncompressed) onto a tape...  ...a nice little lto3 library will sort you out ;D
Can't really think of a decent, foolproof, reliable backup strategy for that amount of data - I have similar backup issues myself, with simiilar amount of data (1TB)

Ive a tape drive that can get 40GB on a tape.....dont fancy using that either  ::) ;D ;D
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Re: Been sorting my pc's out this week.
« Reply #4 on: 30 January 2009, 22:43:35 »
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lto3 can throw 400G (uncompressed) onto a tape...  ...a nice little lto3 library will sort you out ;D

Can't really think of a decent, foolproof, reliable backup strategy for that amount of data - I have similar backup issues myself, with simiilar amount of data (1TB)


I suppose one answer would be to add another 1TB and mirror them, however my mobo can only take 2 sata disks......so im a bit stuck with that idea.. :-/
I mirrored mine - in my case using a SMART array controller.

For you - dump the crap drive, get another 1TB drive (around £80), and mirror on the mobo (assuming its got onboard raid).  That protects against drive failure, but not corruption
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Re: Been sorting my pc's out this week.
« Reply #5 on: 30 January 2009, 23:48:17 »
I purchased a new PC (yes, yes.., it WAS off ebay lol) and spent a week of hell working on it wondering why I was getting BSOD.., couldn't even install Vista on it.  

Eventually was told to check the RAM.  It being a new system, and supposedly checked as working (and having exchanged several emails with the traders).., I hadn't checked the RAM.  So I took one out and yep, pc started bleeping and wouldn't start up.  Trader still would not admit it had been supplied with a duff stick of  memory but got them to send more out eventually.

Now instead of messing around, if I get any problems with BSOD or hear of anyone having the same.., always tell them to check RAM sticks as a first port of call.

So, I do sympathise!
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Re: Been sorting my pc's out this week.
« Reply #6 on: 31 January 2009, 01:02:21 »
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lto3 can throw 400G (uncompressed) onto a tape...  ...a nice little lto3 library will sort you out ;D

Can't really think of a decent, foolproof, reliable backup strategy for that amount of data - I have similar backup issues myself, with simiilar amount of data (1TB)


I suppose one answer would be to add another 1TB and mirror them, however my mobo can only take 2 sata disks......so im a bit stuck with that idea.. :-/
I mirrored mine - in my case using a SMART array controller.

For you - dump the crap drive, get another 1TB drive (around £80), and mirror on the mobo (assuming its got onboard raid).  That protects against drive failure, but not corruption

Other option is to get a NAS box and put the other drive in that and run backups onto that. At least if corruption occurs you could restore a recent backup, and it means that if something catastrophic happens to the PC, you don't lose both drives.

On my mind at the moment as I've just built a new music server with a 1TB drive and I'm breaked if I'm going to rip all these CDs to FLAC again. >:(

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Re: Been sorting my pc's out this week.
« Reply #7 on: 31 January 2009, 01:12:21 »
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lto3 can throw 400G (uncompressed) onto a tape...  ...a nice little lto3 library will sort you out ;D

Can't really think of a decent, foolproof, reliable backup strategy for that amount of data - I have similar backup issues myself, with simiilar amount of data (1TB)

Hmmm... If it wasn't for the massive price tag, I would have one!  ;D

Im sorting MP3's at the moment (as they are all over the place - eg PC, Laptop, PDA, Server, Old Hard Drives, USB Sticks and Car PC to name a few!)

Spend ALL of last weekend sorting it (still not done) but im getting there!

Shoved 2x74gb SCSI drives in my old server as a mirror. Ended up filling that up, so im now using 3x36gb disks (RAID 5) too! ;D

Cant bellive how much heat the old ProLiant kicks out! Its not exactly high spec (having said that, it does have 7 hard drives spinning away atm!), yet its warmer with my window open and the server on, than it is with the window closed and server off!  :o

Oh, and im running out of space again  :'(
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Re: Been sorting my pc's out this week.
« Reply #8 on: 31 January 2009, 01:19:20 »
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lto3 can throw 400G (uncompressed) onto a tape...  ...a nice little lto3 library will sort you out ;D

Can't really think of a decent, foolproof, reliable backup strategy for that amount of data - I have similar backup issues myself, with simiilar amount of data (1TB)


I suppose one answer would be to add another 1TB and mirror them, however my mobo can only take 2 sata disks......so im a bit stuck with that idea.. :-/

Add a 1TB via an external USB2 caddy.

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/newsletter?productId=34559&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1Tb+Hitachi+Deskstar+7K1000.B+SATA-2+Hard+Drive+16MB+Cache&utm_campaign=newsletter230109

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Drive+Bays/?x=12&p_order=price_asc&p=cF9zdHlsZT1saXN0JnBfcHJvZHVjdHNQZXJQYWdlPSY=
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Re: Been sorting my pc's out this week.
« Reply #9 on: 31 January 2009, 06:30:40 »
Well!  That all went over my head ::)

Anyone for tenis? ;)
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