With rsync --link-dest, is it possible to determine which files are new?

Eric Shubert ejs at shubes.net
Sat Oct 22 21:28:45 MDT 2011


I agree. Raid is no backup.

I expect your experience is extensive to see that many dual drive RAID1 
failures. Haven't seen one yet myself (knock wood).

Several years ago, I recovered all but a handful of files from a 3-drive 
raid-5 array where 2 drives had failed. Wasn't pretty. Needless to say, 
there were no backups (wasn't my doing).

I know where you're coming from. ;)

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On 10/22/2011 08:12 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:
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> I would say that not doing backups of RAID at any level is rather unwise.
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> Of course I have seen dual drive failures of a RAID1 array on about 5
> occasions.  I have also seen a dual drive failure and a controller SNAFU
> of a RAID5 on 2 occasions.
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> Simply put, RAID is not a backup.  RAID is to keep you running when a
> drive dies.  Backups are to get you running again when RAID fails or
> when something happens that RAID doesn't protect from (file
> deletion/corruption either accident or on purpose).
>
> On 10/22/11 23:03, Eric Shubert wrote:
>> On 10/22/2011 04:04 PM, Ido Magal wrote:
>>> 'find' on the droboFS doesn't support '-links' so I had to get
>>> creative. And apparently perl has issues on it as well.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 08:02, Eric Shubert<ejs at shubes.net>   wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> # find /backup/dir -type f -links 1
>>>> ?
>>
>> Sorry, I'm not familiar with droboFS. So I checked it out a bit.
>>
>>  From the looks if things, droboFS may not (from their web site) "deliver
>> the best file sharing experience ever". I certainly wouldn't trust my
>> data to "BeyondRAID" technology alone (give me software Raid-10 any
>> day). You're wise to be doing backups of the thing. Good luck with it.
>>
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