From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 10 13: 7:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B74837B405 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 13:07:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4AK75v70513; Fri, 10 May 2002 13:07:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 13:07:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Eric Anderson Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Marc Ramirez , Subject: Re: Backing up my CDs [was Re: My horror story] In-Reply-To: <3CDC1339.AF6DE0B7@centtech.com> Message-ID: <20020510130236.I40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 10 May 2002, Eric Anderson wrote: > > So how about buying two or more hard drives and striping/mirroring > > them, eg vinum? > > Striping will only lessen your redundancy, but mirroring will help.. > Many new motherboards have built in IDE RAID (level 0,1) now, and they > work very well. Usually, I slap another drive in, and have tar's > (compressed) run via cron. that's not a bad solution, untill you have to deal with moving it between hardware. the mirrored RAID solution works, and works well, so long as each drive doesn't know it's a mirror, and you can remove it and use it somewhere else to recover data from. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message