I've had to fight excessively to have backup systems and RAID systems because the nitwits always think that RAID means you don't have to do a backup.

I wonder if they argue with their doctors as much as they do with their computer guy. LOL

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--- On Wed, 12/17/08, Gil Hale <gil@gilhale.com> wrote:

> From: Gil Hale <gil@gilhale.com>

> Subject: RE: [NF] Heads up to Buffalo NAS owners

> To: profox@leafe.com

> Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 8:34 PM

> I have a blend of brands for my external HDD units that I

> use for disk image

> and file backup purposes. But not being the trusting type

> I also back up

> the backup HDD units to a 2nd set of external HDD units,

> connected to a Dell

> 840 Server via eSATA. Since having gone to a 2nd layer of

> HDD protection

> (which is backed up weekly to an LTO3 tape drive unit, on

> any one of 3 sets

> of tape media) I have only lost one primary backup HDD. I

> bet if I did not

> have the backup HDD units backed up at a 2nd level, much

> less via LTO3 tape,

> I would have lost a lot more <g>...

>

> That said, a friend of mine in SoCal had a Lacie 500Gb RAID

> external USB2

> unit. He told me last year that he could never lose data

> on that unit

> because of its RAID configuration. "Wanna bet?",

> asked I. Sure enough, the

> other month he lost the Lacie unit. He could not find

> anyone who was

> willing to touch it for less than $1,000 to try to recover

> data. And I was

> not out there to try to help him out. Luckily he moved it

> from being used

> as a primary storage device to file backup only, otherwise

> he would have

> lost a lot of client video he was storing.

>

> He has now gone to the primary/secondary external HDD

> backup strategy. Once

> he has the bux to do so he is going to get an LTO4 Tape

> Drive and start to

> behave in a responsible manner. Some of the video he

> shoots is for the

> medical community for training. Once in a while they ask

> him to splice in

> or out changes, then recompile the output file. So if he

> ever lost the

> source files used for his compilation he would be

> "almost" screwed. He

> tells me he has the original tapes, and can rebuild the

> projects if he has

> to. I advised that I would not put that much faith into

> tape, and pointed

> out the hours of tape restoring and recompilation he could

> save by not

> taking chances.

>

> I have been using the Seagate FreeAgent External HDD units

> for the past year

> (5 year warranty) with good results. If you want to use

> these with anything

> other than XP or Vista you will need to connect the HDD via

> US2 to an

> XP/Vista machine, then run the Seagate software to turn off

> the sleep mode

> (default = 15 minutes, I set it to never sleep, gets saved

> in the HDD

> firmware). That way on a Linux/Mac/Windows Server 2003

> machine the HDDs

> never "disappear" when they go to sleep. It is

> the only flaw I have

> experienced thus far with that model. BTW, I found their

> utility software

> works fine with USB2, maybe with Firewire, but certainly

> not with an eSATA

> connection.

>

> Gil

>

>

>

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com

> > [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com]On Behalf Of

> Kevin Cully

> > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 7:47 PM

> > To: profoxtech@leafe.com

> > Subject: Re: [NF] Heads up to Buffalo NAS owners

> >

> >

> > Thanks Michael. I've got a Buffalo LS (250G)

> that's been running

> > reliably for about 5 years now. I'd hate to lose

> her.

> >

> > -Kevin

> > CULLY Technologies, LLC

> >

> >

> > Michael Madigan wrote:

> > > I just had a problem where my NAS wasn't

> recognized by the

> > network anymore. I could ping it, but I couldn't

> see the shares

> > and I couldn't get into the web admin.

> > >

> > > In my case, and I suspect in many cases, the

> flash memory got

> > trashed. By just running a firmware update downloaded

> from

> > Buffalo, that fixed all my problems.

> > >

> > > Keep that in your memory banks.

> > >

> > >

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