[ale] disk drive diagnostics nirvana - NOT - I have questions

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi Doug,

Good points.  I use Amazon S3 via the Jungledisk program (a bit dated, but functional) program to backup most of my data on my machines.  That costs $ 0.15 / GB / Mo. for storage and a similar fee per GB of downloads.  I don't think they charge for uploads.

For the 1 TB drive mentioned in this thread, I don't back that up to the cloud because it would be too expensive.

I had a thought of how I could avoid some of the data scrubbing I'm doing.  It occurred to me that if I clone a hard drive for backup purposes, and do it on a sector by sector level, then I will have read every sector on the hard drive of the source and will have written every sector on the hard drive of the target.  That might be enough scrubbing and I might be able to avoid the read invert write read invert write procedure.  I'm not sure a read only analysis on the source drive is enough though.

Sincerely,

Ron


Doug Hall <doughalldev at gmail.com> wrote:

>This is probably common sense, but this very scenario is one reason I
>have both network (off-site), and local backups. The local backups are
>there for speed and ease of restore. The off-site backup is there in
>case of fire, act of God, or burglary. Also, the off-site backup is
>there in case your local backups fail (and vice versa). At the time I
>did it, CrashPlan would let you do remote encrypted backups to a
>friend's computer for free. I don't know if they still have a free
>option, however.
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