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Rob Ricci

Did you know: you can avoid the need for backups by failing to do anything worth saving a copy of

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Dec 16 at 3:49amWeb
Show threadRob RicciDec 16
Backup pro tip: buy a drive that's twice as big as you need so that you can back up one half of the drive to the other half
Show threadRob RicciDec 16
Experts recommend testing your backups periodically to make sure they work when you really need them. This can be accomplished by simply walking into Mordor and casting your computer into the fires of Mount Doom every 8-12 months
Show threadDamonHDDec 16
@ricci Should we back up the bits upside-down to balance the spindle?
Show threadRob RicciDec 16
@DamonHD if you want to get all fancy about it
Show threadDan PortsDec 16
@ricci
Show threadChennyDec 16

@dan @ricci amazing. Now do four

https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036/

Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades

Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of shaving in this country. The Gillette Mach3 was the razor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-blade razor. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Mach3Turbo. That’s three blades and an aloe strip. For moisture. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I’m telling you what happened—the bastards went to four blades. Now we’re standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling three blades and a strip. Moisture or no, suddenly we’re the chumps. Well, fuck it. We’re going to five blades.

The Onion
Show threadRob RicciDec 16

@secretasianman @dan Still a thing, I've actually got some in my desktop machine at home:

They are arranged as as two raid5s, one for the top half of every drive, the other for the bottom half of every drive, then a raid-0 striped across the two

https://www.seagate.com/innovation/multi-actuator-hard-drives.html/

MACH.2 Multi-Actuator Hard Drive | Seagate US

The world’s first multi-actuator hard drive with two independent actuators that transfer data concurrently.

Seagate.com
Show threadpoetasterDec 16
@dan this is more pliable
Show threadSnoopJDec 16
@ricci way ahead of you here
Show threadG. WozniakDec 16
@SnoopJ @ricci 99% of what I have could be deleted and it wouldn't matter.
Show threadSnoopJDec 16
@gwozniak @ricci Sturgeon's Law strikes again!
Show threadG. WozniakDec 16

@SnoopJ @ricci Was going through some boxes the other day and came across my thesis.

It's totally in the "maybe" pile.

Show threadklu9Dec 16

@SnoopJ @ricci

Way ahead? How??? By creating only things that should be actively deleted?

Show threadWilliam J. BowmanDec 16
@ricci The Buddhist approach to computing: just let it go
Show threadRob RicciDec 16
@wilbowma take no action that has side effects
Show threadG. WozniakDec 16
@ricci @wilbowma Live the functional life?
Show threadArne Dehli HalvorsenDec 16
@gwozniak @ricci @wilbowma The alternative is "dysfunctional", no?
Show threadBrian M Knoblock 🇺🇸🇳🇴 🦊Dec 16

@ricci

I have the problem of needing to avoid wanting nine backups of the same directory.
My redundancy has redundancy of its own.

Show threadrjDec 16
@ricci look if it's worthwhile the people will mirror it for you, this is known
Show threadocdtrekkieDec 16
@ricci This is why I don't worry too much about people stealing my financial information.
Show threadGuillotine Jones, FlâneurDec 16
@ricci
Superb advice, Prof Ricci.
What's more, for those who are failure-avoidant, one isn't even obligated to fail.
One can also evade, neglect, or refrain from making backups.
Show threadRoadskater, Ph.D.Dec 16
@ricci After a hard drive failure that lost 30 years worth of financial data, this is the life I now lead.
Show threadExpertenkommision CyberunfallDec 16

@ricci

this backup could have been a format c:

Show threadFirekeeperDonDec 16

@ricci keep everything everywhere.

>house burns down
>work explodes
>cousins house floods
>aws goes down

Not to worry. *shakes hard drive out of a random cereal box*

Show threadNetravenDec 16
@ricci If you create what you love with the intent of it being temporary... losing everything is a fresh new start.
Show threadJacob SomethingDec 16
@ricci Okay, done. Followed.
Show threadGunde - RoteGnDec 16
@ricci 👍 My way to go
Show thread@stevewfoldsDec 16
@ricci I do weekly backups to disks & unplug them. Lost most everything to a neighborhood ground fault that trashed every electric appliance that was on. The VHS survived.
Show threadklu9Dec 16

@stevewfolds @ricci

Can't wait for the dystopian OA (old adult) novel set in a world where all technology has failed except for VHS machines, CRT TVs, and the power to run them.

#VHS

Show threadHein RagasDec 16
@ricci @skye A very Buddhist approach to data preservation
Show threadCountingKylesDec 16
@ricci Does it also count if you've made such a labyrinthine nest of folders that you can never find anything anyway?
Show threadnadakaDec 16

@ricci brilliant! Also:

"Best defense: Not be there."
- Mr. Miyagi

Show threadStephanie Vee Dec 16
@ricci This will be helpful during the "we're living in a Mad Max film, except SSDs are water" timeline in which we currently find ourselves.
Show threadMitex LeoDec 16
@ricci I just pray to god that my SSD doesn't fail 🙏
Show threadenclatureDec 16
@ricci I liked the NEC PC-8201a / Model 100 model.

- 4AA Batteries
- Instant-on, always
- The batteries retain data for 1-2 months
- If you don't get the data off in a month+ then it wasn't important enough.
- works for me
Show threadVER-1602Dec 16
@ricci me...
Show threadRob RicciDec 16
@wavejumper3 awwwww
Show threadUpLateGeekDec 16
@ricci way ahead of you.
Show threadI like your shoelacesDec 16
@ricci reminds me of Linus Torvalds' approach to storage: "I just put everything online and if it's worth saving, someone will save it for me".