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| greg's domain is listed in houston tx, sad i looked too. i'd consider moving for better speeds as well. and to think that 20 or so years ago i was in the "test" area for time warner and the new technologies and we had unheard of speeds for back then... (cant' recall what they were exactly but this was in the era when most still used dial up) over the years i've had all types of backup fail. multiple formats of tapes over the years that were corrupted written wrong by an unknown bug in retrospect, or tapes that get munged up (like the old cassette tapes would) and need hand winding - had many different tape technologies and none were perfect or lasted forever either. cd/dvd's that despite being in a massive fireproof safe (pitch black too) they developed read issues as the dyes aged and some files would be corrupted (thankfully i always burned 2 of every cd/dvd) that reduced the odds of the disc having the exact same sector go bad after a few years - so would load get a complete set and then burn back to new media - annoying and time consuming. had hard drives in storage that developed the head stick - sometimes slamming them down onto a carpeted floor flat side down would unstick the head, also could put them in a freezer to try to get the head free (just wait for them to warm a bit before plugging them in) yes these were all sanctioned remedies back then. RAID 5 setups that would lose a drive, usually all rebuilt fine (though takes hours if not days to do on large sets) but after a few years some of these raids needed the EXACT same drive size/module and they were not made anymore, so that was expensive to start over, i think our next raids were able to use any drive as long as larger size - but made for expensive paperweights as the years ticked on. also the scariest thing was those very rare times when you had to power down the raid - they always stayed on, and 95% of drive failures where when you powered down for a firmware upgrade, electrical power maintenance, PS die, or something else unavoidable (like a massive hurricane and days without power) and upon turning them on is typically when a drive would not come up - fearing that one day fate would have two fail at once and there goes your whole raid 5 bye, bye. so we started using the older raids as backups of the newer raid 5's but it made for a huge footprint and lots of power/space to keep this all now. of course in the days of 6TB drives like now that seems easier but file sizes just keep ballooning so it's really no gain in size/space. it's pretty frustrating that apple never committed to blueray, i'd feel better with that if it was. but still if it is a disc and important it is double burned - just safer to have two copies but then i still keep data on drives too, just safer to have anything that important on multiple locations, we too have paid multi-thousands for drive recovery and having some discs and drives in a fireproof safe is far cheaper, but very annoying for sure. seems no perfect world for backup - the current trend of "cloud" i do not like. just wait until some cloud service has a massive blackout, crash, or goes under and see how good it will be. just not my cup of tea at all. i still look around for one perfect solution, nothing yet. dann ___________________________________________________________________ Dann Stubbs - dann@darkskydigital.com Dark Sky Digital - http://www.darkskydigital.com http://www.RenderKing.com Value Priced C4D, VRAY Render Farm ___________________________________________________________________ On Nov 14, 2013, at 8:17 AM, Allen Ellis wrote:
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