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10 things that block your Happiness

  1. Self-hatred
  2. Not being able to let go of the past.
  3. Not being able to forgive yourself.
  4. Not being able to value who you are.
  5. Assuming RAID is backup.
  6. Not making backups.
  7. Not verifying backups and finding out restore time.
  8. Needing other people to validate you.
  9. Letting other people define who you are.
  10. Trying to be perfect and to please everyone.
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (15 children)

But it's still not a backup strategy. You should always have a second partition on the server that you sync your data over to. For performance reasons this partition should be on the same RAID 0 array.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Backing up to a different partition on the same RAID array sounds like a good way to lose all your data.

The backup should be physically separate from the original.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Yes, and it should use another type of media, like tape, glass, stone tablets or optical media

[–] jubilationtcornpone 5 points 2 months ago

NEVER test your backups. It wears out the tapes faster.

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