Backups!

More Context and Motivation

Three Catastrophes

Usto-Oran
  • RAID redundancy of disks — but two disks failed!
  • Used as archive, but no backups!

Research Group at UMIST (Some years ago!)
  • All data and source code on one Solaris server.
  • All backed up nightly — but no one checked the backups!

Thesis MS Word File Corruption
  • On a more personal level. . .
  • File corrupted; hard copy only; type it all in again!


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Page Contents:


Basic Linux Stuff


The Edit, Compile, Link Cycle


HPC


How can I get my results faster?


Remote Working


Backups!


Help and Community


Finale




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