http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/10/09/iphone_firmware_312/comments/

I`ll be leaving that update for a week or so and let other people get bitten first by whatever new bugs that update introduces. I`m still looking forward to ditching the phone next year unless things improve dramatically.

So, I`ve added a bunch of stuff to the Lacie drive – some backups of work, etc. and a couple of VirtualBox disk images to keep them safe, plus I`ve taken a bunch of RAW photos (which ain`t small). Then I had the bright idea I`d kick off another backup to the external USB drive attached to the Lacie. But oh no! The Lacie now contains about 550GB of stuff, and the USB drive contains about 450GB as a previous backup in its own sodding backup directory.

As the Lacie can`t do incremental backups, that means I`d need to full backup. Except there`s not enough space now on the USB drive to hold 2 full backups. So I thought “Ah! I`ll reformat the USB drive and start clean”, and logged into the Lacie admin interface to reformat the USB drive. But I can`t do that from the interface. I now have to ask Windows to spend a week with its crappy file Explorer deletion facility – no quick mkfs or anything.

Very disappointed!

Also, if anyone has any ideas as to what exactly the Lacie is doing all day long, whirring away, doing something.. anything.. making noise.. when the laptop is switched off and no-one else has access to the drive. Does it run hourly crons to move files around? Any information would be appreciated!

Well, I say successfully – the backup is stored off the root of the drive in a directory with a timestamp as part of its filename. This means that if I want to backup again, I get 2 directories on the root of the second drive, both containing, probably, 99% identical data. There`s no concept of any other backup strategy than full, and full is placed into its own directory. That means that my current Lacie drive can be backed up twice before the Toshiba drive is full.

So it looks like I`ll have to head off to rsync after all – I just wanted 1 completely up-to-date backup! All that hassle, and that`s before even thinking about offsite backups… meh.