Harddrive Meltdown
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- sisu
So for the second time in the last 3 years my G5 harddrive has gone bad. Luckily I had backed stuff up fairly recently but still lost a lot of recent work.
For those of you who work in an auto-backup office environment, do you have any recommendations. I'd like to suggest something that will cover our whole team: 8 creatives.
- Autokern0
A fileserver with a raid System where to save your stuff at the end of the day would be a pretty standard solution.
If you want to be supersecure add tape backup system to run weekly.
- horton0
G5 tower? To be fair, drives must be getting old.
As for backup recommendations, I 100% recommend using OSX Time Machine. Get a big cheap external, hourly backups in the background, you can't go wrong.
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and i have another external drive
just for photosalicetheblue
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- Horp0
I back up to two 500gb externals at a time. Drives me nuts but I could never put my trust in just one back up.
- sisu0
The only silver lining to this situation is that I am being upgraded to a Mac Pro.
- Shaney0
keep all files on external drives and back them up, only files on main puter drive should be program files...
- eh? no.horton
- that's ridiculous and a whole lotta wasted GBs.horton
- actually, he's more right than he realises. if you keep project files on different drives than your OS, then you can have better performance (not for redundancy purposes though)louiee
- performance (not for redundancy purposes though)louiee
- although a second internal drive (or even better, a raid) is fasterlouiee
- maybe if your editing video but otherwise overkill iMO.horton
- i partition first chunk of my disk for OSX, more than adequate for my use.horton
- louiee0
a tape machine really is handy. expensive but good. most reliable solutions i've seen. apart from that, start with a raid 5 server for your team. maybe even add a time machine backup for all machines.
- Tape seems to be expensive... meaning we probably don't have a budgie for it. What does 5 in Raid 5 mean?sisu
- RAID 5 (striped disks with parity) combines three or more disks in a way that protects data against loss of any one disk; the storage capacity of the array is reduced by one disk.louiee
- the storage capacity of the array is reduced by one disk.
louiee
- akrokdesign0
"my G5 harddrive has gone bad."
do you mind release the info what brand, type, model, etc. ???
- colab0
I'd set up a redundant RAID array. Have all data written to both disks at once.