Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:19:16 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > Oh I was plenty broken up about it when I first realized... I lost
> > about 4 and a half gig of mp3/ogg files, about 3 gig of tools, toys
> > and tech docs that I'd accumulated over the last 2 years in the IT
> > industry.. :-/
> > But most of those were windows based and I rarely use windows now,
> > plus I've always wanted to re-rip my mp3's into a better quality
> > selection..
> >
> > What happened? I started getting "Bad Block" errors so I rebuilt twice
> > before I "got the message" and threw the towel in.
> 
> Scary.
> 
> The last 15 years of my life are stored on my drive. I have recently
> started to worry as I realised just what a disaster that would be if I
> lost all that. As soon as money permits, I plan to build a second
> (cheap) Ubuntu box that will serve no purpose but back up my /home
> partition on the main computer. Say via a fast Ethernet local network,
> every night with cron job. Peace of mind is priceless...
> 
It would be cheaper and far safer for you to purchase a dvd burner,
slot it in and to burn that 15 years to a couple of 4 gig dvd's..


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