Re: tlug: Problems with my harddisk

["Manuel M. T. Chakravarty" <chak@example.com>]

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions concerning my
harddisk.  I am now running it in ``panic mode'', ie, all
changes are backed up on a PD drive every hour by a cron job
using `rsync'. (For everyone who didn't try rsync yet, it is
an absolutely fabulous program -- kind of a rcp with more
features, but it uses a `diff'-like algorithm to copy the
minimal amount of data when the target files already exist.)

Scott, I wonder why rsync is not on the TL distribution
(though it is in contrib)?

And from the posts it seems that IBM drives have a good
reputation, so I probably will go for one.

Thanks (Linux support, as always, is the best :-)

Manuel
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