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Forum: General 12-26-2016, 07:55 PM
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Posted By dnanian
Optical disks have always proven to be less...

Optical disks have always proven to be less reliable, in my experience.

Yes, it's a few hundred bucks, but it's also not something that needs to be upgraded a lot, and if you're that worried about...
Forum: General 12-26-2016, 12:29 PM
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Posted By dnanian
Again, I had to be a broken record here, but...

Again, I had to be a broken record here, but using a NAS (Synology units, for example, use BTRFS) to archive, including hardware and "bit rot" redundancy, seems like the way to go here, not a tool to...
Forum: General 12-24-2016, 10:24 PM
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Posted By dnanian
Disk Utility checks the directory for errors. It...

Disk Utility checks the directory for errors. It doesn't check the "disk" as such... this is generally the area where ZFS does well and is self repairing... but, ZFS isn't terribly easy to use on OS...
Forum: General 12-24-2016, 07:18 AM
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Posted By dnanian
Perhaps a NAS is the way to go for you, Dan? They...

Perhaps a NAS is the way to go for you, Dan? They aren't that expensive, are easy to manage, and have other means of preserving and reconstructing data as well...
Forum: General 12-23-2016, 11:47 AM
Replies: 15
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Posted By dnanian
Doesn't seem that odd to me... this type of...

Doesn't seem that odd to me... this type of failure just isn't common (and who's to say the source isn't failing - what's the reference?)...
Forum: General 12-22-2016, 09:57 AM
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Posted By dnanian
No, that's not what scrubbing does: your NAS...

No, that's not what scrubbing does: your NAS usually will offer data integrity scrubbing.

And I'm talking about more than mechanical performance. There's a lot of "fuzziness" in magnetic drop-off,...
Forum: General 12-21-2016, 10:15 AM
Replies: 15
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Posted By dnanian
Well, again, the scrubbing does refresh the data...

Well, again, the scrubbing does refresh the data (as, obviously, does the yearly rewriting). So, if you consider your NAS-based backups "archival" and have them scrubbed, they seem reasonably safe to...
Forum: General 12-19-2016, 01:38 PM
Replies: 15
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Posted By dnanian
I take a major OS update as an opportunity to do...

I take a major OS update as an opportunity to do a full backup, Dan. On top of that, I use a number of backup volumes, some of which are RAID and get scrubbed, to ensure that things are generally...
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