I meant to say "...that a HD failure will make back ups on it MOOT..."
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Ranbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom, > > Can you elaborate? I get that a HD failure will make back ups on it mute, > but I am now backing up onto an external drive. Is the idea that if I also > back up on the HD, I will then have 2 copies in case one or the other drives > fail? > > No idea what RAID is, and almost afraid to ask or want to know if I need to > know about this, yet another thing to ponder and maybe spend money on. > > Thanks, > > Randall > > > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >Maybe what I'm really asking is what does the >> >back up on the computer actually do and what and how does it prevent >> nasty >> >things from happening? >> >> That depends on how you have your backup set up. It is therefore a good >> idea to occasionally pretend that your hard drive has failed and see what >> your backups can do for you. Sometimes the answer is not a happy one. >> >> >> ************************************************************************* >> ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >> ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> > > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
