Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 13:07:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.homeunix.org>, <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Backing up my CDs [was Re: My horror story] Message-ID: <20020510130236.I40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <3CDC1339.AF6DE0B7@centtech.com>
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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
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