[GNC] transaction images and failed hard drives

[Jeff]

On 10/14/22 7:10 AM, Murugan Muruganandam wrote:
> Jeff
>
> this may not be the direct answer, nevertheless i use the cloud 
> storage for my GNU files and it works like a charm(and economical).  
> Apart from crashes, it allows me to connect from different computers 
> and work.
> Again not an answer to your question, thought will share.
>
>
>
> Saludos Cordiales
>
>
> Murugan
>
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> *Sent:* Friday, October 14, 2022 3:24 AM
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> *Subject:* [GNC] transaction images and failed hard drives
> I know that this question has been asked many times but I am asking
> again. I just had 2 hard drive failures back to back, both of which just
> happened to have images attached to GNC transactions.  Bad luck on my
> part, they also happened to be my backup drives. Murphy is after all the
> patron saint of all physicists.  Everything that can go wrong will go
> wrong.  I am currently adding 2 more backup drives plus a third working
> drive (all 6 TB, right now, I expect all of them to be filled with my
> next project in the next 2 weeks, although 6 gigs will be devoted
> specifically to GNC).
>
> Is there any way, even the slightest, to attach a transaction image to a
> daemon instead of a specific file? That way I could use a database
> system in the background to hold images instead of the file system.
> That way images would still be available to GNC and searchable for me
> (never know when a rebate might show up {grin}).
>
> Platter failures are a lot less expensive to recover than circuit boards
> (i need battery backup here but right now I cannot afford a large enough
> system with voltage spike protection) and my electric company is well
> known for feeding large voltage spikes here since I have the best
> grounding system for miles and I am the last drop on their power line.
> 60 volts on the neutral is a common experience.  It's a wonder that I
> still have at least one computer that works.
>
>
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> --JEffrey Black M.B.A.
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Appreciate the answer but; I do not trust cloud images.  Too many 
possible snoopers.  Everything you send over the web is public, keyed or 
not.

For security reasons I need to keep all data local and not just GNC.  
All private data is kept on a system that is not accessible via the web, 
no internet period.


-- 
--JEffrey Black M.B.A.