Re: My First HDD Failure (I Think)

On 11/25/24 2:25 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:01:30 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:
 

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That's why I said your data doesn't have structure. Structure evolves.
Constantly.
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My data is a structure. It is a warehouse, not a dump :) Only a dump can
be left to itself.
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 It does not matter.
 If your backup software backs up only the changes then your old "structure"
will be replaced by your new "structure."  The result will be a perfect
mirror of your current "structure."
    

And how often do you then do the back up? A "warehouse" has constantly things going in and getting out. These things' locations in it also gradually change. And many of these things themselves - each! - also gradually change. Every day. Every time I am at the computer this "warehouse" changes. I'm absolutely not willing to settle for it jumping back to how it was, say, a week earlier. How do you feel re_thinking_ your thoughts through an entire week?  Lot's of work can go into one week. "Backup" should do better than losing one's whole week of mental activity.
So does one modify the backup every day, at the end of each day? Then you're endangering your back up cause you're messing with it too often and it may crash one day. It will in fact.
To get around that, you'd have to do entire back ups everyday, each on a new media, and never touch them unless you have to. Putting these entire backups on the same media is still dangerous.
I bet this is what those who are serious about it do. They have the money and they have the men to spend hours each day backing up data, perhaps even creating multiple copies on different media in case something happens to one of them.