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Why would somebody make different partitions anyway?
Authored by: tim-wood-MacOSXH on May 30, '05 11:54:38PM

A few years back, I had to salvage a webserver that died. It turned out that a blackout had outlasted the powerbackup, crashing the server, when an automatic update was happening, completely corrupting the entire partition. It would no longer boot. And the corruption was not fixable. And the backup hadn't been functioning properly. And it was a production webserver for about a dozen domains. Gulp. But, when I set up the server, I had partitioned the drive. The data (the websites, the email, the databases, etc) was on two partitions that did not hold any programs or the OS. I backed up the data, installed a new drive, reinstalled stuff, copied the data back and everything was back online. Painful, but partitioning was the extra little bit of insurance that saved the day.



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Why would somebody make different partitions anyway?
Authored by: deleted_user18 on May 31, '05 09:38:58AM

The black out could also easily hit your data partition. You just had luck.

You need a proper backup strategy. A backup partition which just is backuped to is no backup. What happend to you can happen evertime, the computer dies while the backup is made and you have two corrupted copies of your files. Because of this you should make different backups.



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Why would somebody make different partitions anyway?
Authored by: jesboat on Jun 20, '05 04:09:05PM

Certainly, his data partition could have been wiped too, but with his strategy, there's also the potential for it to be OK. The point isn't to forgo backups and proper protection because "my separate-partitions-ness will save me", but that, should everything else fail, there's one more hope.

Jesboat

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