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    How do you back your systems up?

    Nice. Well if you guys have a chance, look into rdiff-backup and see what you think. It's literally rsync + version history. Food for thought in case you do want to go back to another version, even though I can recall 0 times where I needed it... it's at least nice to know it's there.
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    How do you back your systems up?

    For years I've been using rsync in a simple bash script to automate my backups. Typically my script looks something like this: #!/bin/bash rsync -a --delete --exclude=.gvfs /home/jason jason@192.168.1.20:/media/storage/jason chmod +x it to be executable, cron it (or bind it to a key...
  3. J

    Home Server OS Suggestions

    I'd run Ubuntu on it to be honest, but that's just me. I've toyed with different Windows Home Server variants and I just get frustrated each time with it. Maybe I've kind of got that "stubborn old man who refuses to try new things" mentality, but each time I run Windows, I run into another...
  4. J

    Android Media Devices

    I've been leaning towards trying one of these things, but I really have a hard time justifying it as long as I'm hearing mixed reviews about 1080 playback. I know they're cheap, but our first kid is on the way so I'm in "ultra save" mode. Due to my larger HDDs coming in for my server (3TB...
  5. J

    Some questions about hard drives and imaging software

    I just did a truckload of research on the WD Reds as I was in the market for new drives for my server. I was comparing 4x2TB and 2x3TB variants. In literally 99% of the cases, if there was a negative review about these drives it was due to the lack of shipping materials used, which is something...
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    Manual TRIM for SSD? Is it needed?

    Not to hijack the thread, but when you enable trim, does it do anything negative to the drive in terms of data corruption/loss or anything like that? I have an SSD for my Ubuntu install, and even though I'm not noticing any slow down this thread got me wondering if I need to consider enabling it.
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    RAID, URE's, Confusion.

    Preachin to the choir here, brother. :D Having some degree of redundancy just makes more sense in my case. My server does a lot (I notated what it does in the first post) and I rely on it more than I realize. Since I ran a RAID mirror before (2x500) and had two failed HDDs over the course of...
  8. J

    RAID, URE's, Confusion.

    Very nice, fellas. Thank you for your time and patience. I feel as though I understand TLER and UREs significantly more now. I feel confident in the redundancy vs cost ratio with getting two 3TB WD Reds to mirror in my server via mdadm. Should be a pretty decent combination. :D
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    RAID, URE's, Confusion.

    Did you really mean "TLER will cause the drives to go offline", or did you mean TLER will cause the drives to label an unreadable block of data as "bad" and continue moving forward? TLER causing the drives to go offline sounds like the exact opposite of what I thought. I understood that a...
  10. J

    RAID, URE's, Confusion.

    But, in this particular case ---> "A URE during this calculation will cause the second drive to drop from the array, and would take a RAID 5 critical." if you have TLER-enabled-drives, wouldn't the drives be able to circumvent the URE and thereby continue rebuilding without dropping any drives...
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    RAID, URE's, Confusion.

    I see. Thank you for clarifying that. In the event that I hit a URE during a RAID 1 rebuild and my array "tanks" (as I've been calling it), does that mean presto - no more data? Or will the data still be accessible on that single drive that's still running? I was just gathering from that that if...
  12. J

    RAID, URE's, Confusion.

    Thanks for your insight. What's ironic is I just had a conversation with a server tech who works with storage devices. I took the opportunity to run my question by him, but his answer was slightly different. He said if I was running a RAID 1 mirror and a drive failed, installed a new drive and...
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    RAID, URE's, Confusion.

    (to cut to my direct question and bypass most of the background story, drop to TL : DR) Good morning! First time poster here... I've continually dug up HardForum links on Google that have helped substantially but I never actually registered until now... better late than never, eh? So I'm doing...
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