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"CyberDroog" |
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01 Mar 2006 12:53:33 PM |
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One Things Leads To Another |
I got two new 320 GB hard drives today. I wasn't expecting them to come so
fast. I wasn't planning on ripping apart the PC's today, but if I don't do
it now they'll probably just sit there.
So I have to take the two 120 GB drives out of the main system and install
the two 320 GB drives. Then I need to put the 120 GB drives into another
system and spin a no-frills version of WinXP on it to create a network
storage device as a tertiary backup.
The current system drive in that second system is to be swapped with the
system drive in my multimedia system.
So what the hell, I might as well crack open the fourth system so I can
update my hardware inventory that naturally gets out of date with all this
parts swapping. Maybe this time I won't swear to God in heaven that I will
always promptly update the hardware inventory whenever I move something
around. The poor guy is probably a little miffed at being lied to so
often.
There is always a mildly disgruntled feeling involved in installing hard
drives. When most people buy two 320 GB drives, they get 640 GB of disk
space. I only get 320 GB of disk space because I always mirror my drives.
Sure, if they have a drive failure they are screwed, while I have a backup.
But somehow I still feel like I'm being boned.
I need to focus on last summer when one of the 120 GB drives went haywire.
I didn't lose a single bit of data. Being anal sometimes pays dividends.
--
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is
designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
- P.J. O'Rourke
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| User: "Bacon" |
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| Title: Re: One Things Leads To Another |
01 Mar 2006 01:10:07 PM |
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"CyberDroog" <CyberDroog@ClockworkOrange.com> wrote in message
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I got two new 320 GB hard drives today.
That's a lot of porn. Seriously, what's all the storage for, is it
business related. Or do you just have a ton of music files and digital
photos?
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| User: "%" |
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| Title: Re: One Things Leads To Another |
01 Mar 2006 01:18:44 PM |
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"Bacon" <rbkfour@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"CyberDroog" <CyberDroog@ClockworkOrange.com> wrote in message
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I got two new 320 GB hard drives today.
That's a lot of porn. Seriously, what's all the storage for, is it
business related. Or do you just have a ton of music files and digital
photos?
its for the woman you live with
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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| Title: Re: One Things Leads To Another |
01 Mar 2006 02:57:45 PM |
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:10:07 -0600, "Bacon" <rbkfour@yahoo.com> wrote:
"CyberDroog" <CyberDroog@ClockworkOrange.com> wrote in message
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I got two new 320 GB hard drives today.
That's a lot of porn. Seriously, what's all the storage for, is it
business related. Or do you just have a ton of music files and digital
photos?
It's mostly audio. I've been, slowly but surely, ripping all of my audio
books and music from cassettes, and some old comedy albums from vinyl. I
store the especially treasured stuff in lossless format, so it builds up
quickly.
Plus I'll be getting a digital video cam at some point.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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| User: "Silver" |
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| Title: Re: One Things Leads To Another |
01 Mar 2006 02:59:03 PM |
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CyberDroog wrote:
There is always a mildly disgruntled feeling involved in installing hard
drives. When most people buy two 320 GB drives, they get 640 GB of disk
space. I only get 320 GB of disk space because I always mirror my drives.
Sure, if they have a drive failure they are screwed, while I have a backup.
But somehow I still feel like I'm being boned.
At least you have backups, having lost stuff before due to datacrash I
DO understand the need.
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| User: "David" |
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| Title: Re: One Things Leads To Another |
01 Mar 2006 01:20:16 PM |
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CyberDroog wrote:
I got two new 320 GB hard drives today. I wasn't expecting them to come so
fast. I wasn't planning on ripping apart the PC's today, but if I don't do
it now they'll probably just sit there.
So I have to take the two 120 GB drives out of the main system and install
the two 320 GB drives. Then I need to put the 120 GB drives into another
system and spin a no-frills version of WinXP on it to create a network
storage device as a tertiary backup.
The current system drive in that second system is to be swapped with the
system drive in my multimedia system.
So what the hell, I might as well crack open the fourth system so I can
update my hardware inventory that naturally gets out of date with all this
parts swapping. Maybe this time I won't swear to God in heaven that I will
always promptly update the hardware inventory whenever I move something
around. The poor guy is probably a little miffed at being lied to so
often.
There is always a mildly disgruntled feeling involved in installing hard
drives. When most people buy two 320 GB drives, they get 640 GB of disk
space. I only get 320 GB of disk space because I always mirror my drives.
Sure, if they have a drive failure they are screwed, while I have a backup.
But somehow I still feel like I'm being boned.
I need to focus on last summer when one of the 120 GB drives went haywire.
I didn't lose a single bit of data. Being anal sometimes pays dividends.
--
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is
designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
- P.J. O'Rourke
It might be a good idea, sometime to try and relax some, and possibly
have your meds looked at. Earlier I was anxious and they made a couple
of changes that seemed to help. Am glad you have the computers to work
with.
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| User: "%" |
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| Title: Re: One Things Leads To Another |
01 Mar 2006 01:21:39 PM |
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"David" <dav.drw@gmail.com> wrote in message
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CyberDroog wrote:
I got two new 320 GB hard drives today. I wasn't expecting them to come
so
fast. I wasn't planning on ripping apart the PC's today, but if I don't
do
it now they'll probably just sit there.
So I have to take the two 120 GB drives out of the main system and
install
the two 320 GB drives. Then I need to put the 120 GB drives into
another
system and spin a no-frills version of WinXP on it to create a network
storage device as a tertiary backup.
The current system drive in that second system is to be swapped with the
system drive in my multimedia system.
So what the hell, I might as well crack open the fourth system so I can
update my hardware inventory that naturally gets out of date with all
this
parts swapping. Maybe this time I won't swear to God in heaven that I
will
always promptly update the hardware inventory whenever I move something
around. The poor guy is probably a little miffed at being lied to so
often.
There is always a mildly disgruntled feeling involved in installing hard
drives. When most people buy two 320 GB drives, they get 640 GB of disk
space. I only get 320 GB of disk space because I always mirror my
drives.
Sure, if they have a drive failure they are screwed, while I have a
backup.
But somehow I still feel like I'm being boned.
I need to focus on last summer when one of the 120 GB drives went
haywire.
I didn't lose a single bit of data. Being anal sometimes pays
dividends.
--
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything
is
designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
- P.J. O'Rourke
It might be a good idea, sometime to try and relax some, and possibly
have your meds looked at. Earlier I was anxious and they made a couple
of changes that seemed to help. Am glad you have the computers to work
with.
i was thinking about that
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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| Title: Re: One Things Leads To Another |
01 Mar 2006 03:50:11 PM |
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On 1 Mar 2006 11:20:16 -0800, "David" <dav.drw@gmail.com> wrote:
It might be a good idea, sometime to try and relax some, and possibly
have your meds looked at. Earlier I was anxious and they made a couple
of changes that seemed to help. Am glad you have the computers to work
with.
I'm not sure why you would suggest that. I'm actually fairly relaxed at
the moment. Feeling pretty good really. I was just mildly protesting the
fact that all this work dropped in my lap today when I thought I had at
least until the weekend.
But I'm going to take your advice anyway... I'm going to the jacuzzi to
relax while the contents of the main data drive is copied to the new drive.
I'm going to stop in the office of my apartment complex also. I'll think
of some reason on the way down... (ah yes, the In-Sink-Erator is making a
lot of noise). The real reason is that I'll have a two month old baby with
me and the office is staffed solely by women who fawn over us every time I
stop in. ;)
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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| User: "%" |
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| Title: Re: One Things Leads To Another |
01 Mar 2006 03:52:39 PM |
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"CyberDroog" <CyberDroog@ClockworkOrange.com> wrote in message
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On 1 Mar 2006 11:20:16 -0800, "David" <dav.drw@gmail.com> wrote:
It might be a good idea, sometime to try and relax some, and possibly
have your meds looked at. Earlier I was anxious and they made a couple
of changes that seemed to help. Am glad you have the computers to work
with.
I'm not sure why you would suggest that. I'm actually fairly relaxed at
the moment. Feeling pretty good really. I was just mildly protesting the
fact that all this work dropped in my lap today when I thought I had at
least until the weekend.
But I'm going to take your advice anyway... I'm going to the jacuzzi to
relax while the contents of the main data drive is copied to the new
drive.
I'm going to stop in the office of my apartment complex also. I'll think
of some reason on the way down... (ah yes, the In-Sink-Erator is making a
lot of noise). The real reason is that I'll have a two month old baby
with
me and the office is staffed solely by women who fawn over us every time I
stop in. ;)
--
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
David likes to apply the med adjusting theory to any and everyone ,
even the people who don't take meds
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| User: "Franz Bestuchev" |
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| Title: Re: One Things Leads To Another |
01 Mar 2006 05:14:41 PM |
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CyberDroog wrote:
I got two new 320 GB hard drives today. I wasn't expecting them to come so
fast. I wasn't planning on ripping apart the PC's today, but if I don't do
it now they'll probably just sit there.
So I have to take the two 120 GB drives out of the main system and install
the two 320 GB drives. Then I need to put the 120 GB drives into another
system and spin a no-frills version of WinXP on it to create a network
storage device as a tertiary backup.
The current system drive in that second system is to be swapped with the
system drive in my multimedia system.
So what the hell, I might as well crack open the fourth system so I can
update my hardware inventory that naturally gets out of date with all this
parts swapping. Maybe this time I won't swear to God in heaven that I will
always promptly update the hardware inventory whenever I move something
around. The poor guy is probably a little miffed at being lied to so
often.
There is always a mildly disgruntled feeling involved in installing hard
drives. When most people buy two 320 GB drives, they get 640 GB of disk
space. I only get 320 GB of disk space because I always mirror my drives.
Sure, if they have a drive failure they are screwed, while I have a backup.
But somehow I still feel like I'm being boned.
I need to focus on last summer when one of the 120 GB drives went haywire.
I didn't lose a single bit of data. Being anal sometimes pays dividends.
So you buy Western Digital drives then, eh.
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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| Title: Re: One Things Leads To Another |
02 Mar 2006 02:28:35 AM |
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On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:14:41 -0700, Franz Bestuchev
<franz.bestuchev@gmail.com> wrote:
CyberDroog wrote:
I need to focus on last summer when one of the 120 GB drives went haywire.
I didn't lose a single bit of data. Being anal sometimes pays dividends.
So you buy Western Digital drives then, eh.
Usually. They tend to be cheaper, and vendor deals often make them
extraordinarily cheap. And with the kind of redundancy I use, the
possibility of drive failure doesn't alarm me at all.
But that was the first time I have had a WD drive fail on me in over ten
years. I mean for my own use. I've seen a handful in the field.
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The hand of God may well be all around us, but it is not, nor can it be,
the task of science to dust for fingerprints.
- Robert Dorit
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| User: "Charles" |
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| Title: Re: One Things Leads To Another |
01 Mar 2006 01:16:20 PM |
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On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:53:33 GMT, CyberDroog
<CyberDroog@ClockworkOrange.com> wrote:
I got two new 320 GB hard drives today. I wasn't expecting them to come so
fast. I wasn't planning on ripping apart the PC's today, but if I don't do
it now they'll probably just sit there.
So I have to take the two 120 GB drives out of the main system and install
the two 320 GB drives. Then I need to put the 120 GB drives into another
system and spin a no-frills version of WinXP on it to create a network
storage device as a tertiary backup.
The current system drive in that second system is to be swapped with the
system drive in my multimedia system.
So what the hell, I might as well crack open the fourth system so I can
update my hardware inventory that naturally gets out of date with all this
parts swapping. Maybe this time I won't swear to God in heaven that I will
always promptly update the hardware inventory whenever I move something
around. The poor guy is probably a little miffed at being lied to so
often.
There is always a mildly disgruntled feeling involved in installing hard
drives. When most people buy two 320 GB drives, they get 640 GB of disk
space. I only get 320 GB of disk space because I always mirror my drives.
Sure, if they have a drive failure they are screwed, while I have a backup.
But somehow I still feel like I'm being boned.
I need to focus on last summer when one of the 120 GB drives went haywire.
I didn't lose a single bit of data. Being anal sometimes pays dividends.
If just for backup, why not just put the drive into a box that
connects to the main machine via USB. Then put it into a drawer until
you need it. seems like that would save space, time, and other
things.
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| User: "CyberDroog" |
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| Title: Re: One Things Leads To Another |
01 Mar 2006 03:42:42 PM |
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On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:16:20 GMT, Charles <ckraft@SPAMTRAP.west.net> wrote:
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:53:33 GMT, CyberDroog
<CyberDroog@ClockworkOrange.com> wrote:
I need to focus on last summer when one of the 120 GB drives went haywire.
I didn't lose a single bit of data. Being anal sometimes pays dividends.
If just for backup, why not just put the drive into a box that
connects to the main machine via USB. Then put it into a drawer until
you need it. seems like that would save space, time, and other
things.
That would be inconvenient since it would require me to take action to
initiate a backup. Inconvenience spells disaster for backups. It seems
like a drive failure will always wait to happen until that one time when
you just didn't feel like performing the backup.
It's actually improper for me to say I mirror the data drives, since that
implies RAID (I do use hardware RAID for the system drives on two systems
though.)
With the data drives, I use a file synchronizer that runs as part of the
system shutdown script. Drive 1 and drive 2 are initially identical, then
at every shutdown all files changed on drive 1 are copied to drive 2, and
files that will be overwritten on drive 2 during that process are copied to
a separate partition on the mirrored system drives with archival names (so
I can have countless old versions of the same files.)
Then I use another system for a tertiary backup. In this case the two 120
GB drives, and an old 80 GB drive I just found, will be striped to create a
single 320 GB drive on another system. As part of it's startup script,
that system initiates a similar process, copying everything changed on the
server's drive 2 to it's own drive, along with the changed files partition
on the first system. Likewise any files to be overwritten during that
process are then archived to a separate partition on the system drive.
So the server is backed up whenever it is shut down (or manually, if I feel
like clicking a toolbar icon), and I get a tertiary backup simply by
turning the other system on. The only thing I do manually is run a script
to clear out most of the changed files partition every now and then (when
remaining space it getting low.) It deletes the least likely suspects that
tend to account for most of the space (e.g. program files that change every
time you run a program.)
Seems excessive to me sometimes also. But it's completely automatic and it
has saved my ***** on more than one occasion.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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