She didn't SAY she wanted a live backup. She said: "I just want to have a [raid] setup to back-up my photo archive.".
And even if she does, just how live does a backup need to be? RAID complicates the system. That can be difficult to justify in the real world. Assuming she shoots daily, there's no need for more than a daily incremental backup, and monthly full offsite backups. RAIDs just multiply the failure rate of each drive, and the RAID can be impossible to rebuild when many failures occur. When a drive is striping, the entire system is vulnerable! NO WAY. Really, she doesn't need disks at all just for good backup, just a broadband connection. On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:47 AM, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > She wants a live backup, not monthly ones. The drobo advantage is plug in ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
