Les Mikesell wrote at about 00:51:43 -0500 on Tuesday, September 1, 2009: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > > > > Yes, except for people using a consumer NAS. > > > > Which is why you want to *backup* your backup database which is one of > > > > the whole points of this whole thread. > > > > > > Yes, but at that level you use the techniques the device offers. Won't > > the NAS > > > mirror its drives? > > > > My NAS has 2 drives in RAID1 and as we all know RAID is not backup. > > Swap one of the drives out, let the RAID rebuild. Take the one you removed > to > another location. Now you have a backup. Repeat with a 4th drive that you > take > offsite before bringing the other one back so you never have the whole > collection in the same place. Problem solved - unless maybe you need a > matching > spare NAS chassis to read the disks. That's not a issue with software raid > but > it might be with a hardware controller. >
Well, that would give me a full filesystem backup. But I have a 1TB filesystem and only about 300GB of it is for BackupPC... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
