power outage

it looks like there was a sustained power outage at paul’s house and our servers have lost power. i don’t think that the UPS would really power the server for very long. the strange thing is that i thought that the computer was set to auto-power on after a power outage…so i’m a little worried that maybe something really bad has happened.

speaking of failed devices, the hard drive that i have all of my images is dying. the backup external hard drive that i had also failed! i just ordered another NAS and i am copying the data off the drive right now. i don’t know what is wrong, but reading data off the drive is RIDICULOUSLY slow. it’s been copying now for over 36 hours and i still don’t have all of the data off the drive. i think that there’s only around 100GB or so of data, so it shouldn’t take THAT long.

what annoys me is that there was this kind of catastrophic failure that happened simultaneously. ugh. it’s a good thing that i have recently re-thought out my backup strategy, but now i’m a little worried that i might not have enough redundancy. at what point do you say that you are really safe? the desktop used to be the primary file server with a USB external drive as a backup so i had two copies of all of my data. it looks like i am lucky this time and i will be able to salvage my data. the new plan was to have two copies of all of my data on two NASes, but i’m wondering now if a NAS is really that safe of an option. should i *GULP* burn DVDs?? that’s going to take forever…

i would do online backup, but i don’t want to pay for a service, and most online backup services have pretty small limits for their free services…hmmmm.

3 thoughts on “power outage”

  1. i don’t think that it is worth $60 annually for me to store data online somewhere. plus, at the end of the data, i think that giving up control of my data to someone else is something that i’m not sure i’m entirely comfortable with. there’s sensitive data like tax returns and the like that i would just prefer to keep to myself.

    any kind of redundancy in disks via RAID always makes me sad to give up the storage space for redundancy. i know hard drive space is cheap, but man, i still feel like i never have enough.

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