[CoLoCo] Notebook drive
Kenneth D Weinert
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I'm looking for a second drive for the new laptop and I'm wondering if
anyone has any opinions on this drive:
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/SkuSearch_v2.asp?SCriteria=AA73566
or this particular company (since they have the best price) or Samsung
drives in general.
I've looked for reviews, but this appears to be a new drive (or I've
reached a new low in my searching abilities) as I've not seen any
reviews yet and not that many places selling it.
Thanks for any info or pointers.
Ken
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David L. Willson
Samsung. Reliability isn't a significant factor in one drive. You can measure
reliability across a field of hundreds and judge it's cost, but not across a field of
one. In a field of just one, the drive might fail, and that's about all you can say
with any trustworthiness. The difference between a 5% and a 10% chance of failure in
the first three years just doesn't mean anything if it's your only hard drive.
My advice is always to buy the cheapest thing you can get (per gigabyte) and make sure
to have at least one copy of your stuph as far as away from the live copy as
practicable, unless you're a gamer, then consider buying the really fast drive.
On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:32:14 -0600, Kenneth D Weinert wrote
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David Overcash
Backups are a must for anything if you really care about your data.... so backup your /Home/ and you should be good to go. (That's really the greatest thing about Linux, isn't it? Copy that folder to a new install and it's practically your old machine minus a few apps).
-David
Kevin Fries
1) issue a 'dpkg --get-selections' command and redirect that to a file on your backup medium (or /etc). This will store the list of all programs you installed via apt-get
2) back up you /etc folder
(Also, /var/www if you are serving web pages; or /var/mail if you have a local mail server)
HTH
Kevin Fries
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Scott Scriven
> 1) issue a 'dpkg --get-selections' command and redirect that to
> a file on your backup medium (or /etc). This will store the
> list of all programs you installed via apt-get
This works, but tends to show me all installed packages -- not
just the ones I actually care about. So I prefer to use
debfoster instead. (and back up /var/lib/debfoster/keepers )
> 2) back up you /etc folder
Definitely.
> (Also, /var/www if you are serving web pages; or /var/mail if
> you have a local mail server)
It's often a good idea to back up all of /var. And even then,
don't forget to dump your databases if you have any.
Other dirs to consider backing up (if you do only partial
backups) are /usr/local, /root, /srv, and /opt, depending on your
distro and config.
-- Scott
Jim Hutchinson
Other dirs to consider backing up (if you do only partial
backups) are /usr/local, /root, /srv, and /opt, depending on your
distro and config.
I would love to see this as a topic in some future meeting as I have never figured out the importance of the various dirs for back ups. My basic philosophy is if I didn't create it then I don't care if it's lost but that is probably not the best philosophy.
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David L. Willson
I prioritize my backups like this:
/home <- Most important, on any system with one or more users
/etc <- I've done a lot of editing in them thar config files
/var <- Might be server-data in here, and will be log files
/root <- Because I might have saved something here, accidentally
/srv <- This is where server-data ~ought~ to be
And don't forget /boot, if you done any kernel-mods.
I don't actually backup /usr/local or /opt, because I gunk them up so badly over the
life of the installation, I usually don't want them back. Typically, they contain
hand-added software.
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:22:38 -0600, Jim Hutchinson wrote
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David L. Willson
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:32:45 -0600, Scott Scriven wrote
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Don Schwartz
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Michael "TheZorch" Haney
I've been an avid supporter of VLC for a long time. My biggest wish is
for a Linux version of KMPlayer though. Best freeware video/DVD player
for Windows in existence.
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Kevin Fries
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/
Its an older more mature product, and may not have the specific Gnome or KDE integration... but for watching DVDs I have never found anything better.
and for you newbies that are wondering, those screen shots are old school Solaris, baby, oh yea, going retro on the screenshots :-D
Kevin Fries
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Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A division of Japan Communications Inc
(303) 708-9228 x326
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Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] Got Hardy DVD View'r?
