Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> 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...
If the rest is worth having, it's probably worth having a copy in a safe place
too.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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