Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Mike McCarty wrote:
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> So, I'm still living with an apparently good disc which is
unexplainably
> slow.
>
Modern big disks are apparently formatted for 4096 byte blocks while the
linux view of a disk is still done with 512 byte blocks. We are being told
that if the partitions are not aligned to these 4096 byte fence posts, the
drive will be slow because of the on the fly translations. As to the
veracity of that claim, I have NDI.
The disc has been in use for a couple of years, with no problem
until the last few months.
[...]
> OTOH, I have a recent full backup of all my data.
You should invest in another 1Tb disk, set that up so amanda can use v-tapes
on that big disk, setup amanda to run every night via an entry in the amanda
crontab. End of worries and 100% automatic.
That's possibly good advice, but not a backup solution. One need
off site storage, IMO. I want my data safe, even if my house burns
or I get a flood, etc.
Mike
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