| I almost lost half my backups this year. That panic is what got me, right when things don't need to get any worse, they do. After all the frustration of suffering through slow as molasses copy operations because they had to be with checksumming, wondering to myself 'how can I justify spending so much time on this?'... Ultimately it paid off & a bad thing wasn't allowed to get worse because of it, and the third copy saved the day. My infrastructure is more resilient now after, and I'm less likely to make concessions with regard to redundancy later. I can still feel overwhelmed when I think about all the time & potential progress I lost recovering, but when I read this article I totally understand & it takes the edge off some. I'm glad for them that all wasn't lost. Some of the good that came from it all was that I found an app called SyncBackPro to pull backups onto an offline sequence with from Windows machines. Unlike others I saw, it can implement logic that says when this serial USB storage is mounted on drive foo, trigger job bar then run this script & eject- plus it does write checksumming for <$100. |