The standard recommendation for this is to buy another disk, clone your disk onto it, take it out and store it somewhere safe. Repeat periodically.
RAID is good at keeping systems running during disk failures, but it's not a backup solution. The problem with RAID solutions, is that if something goes wrong with the OS/FS or with user error it'll probably be replicated on both drives, and bang goes (some of) your backup. On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 03:13 -0700, max.spicer wrote: > Manuel Rathmann wrote (in "New Buffalo Linkstation and Slimserver"): > > [..] my harddrive just went up in smoke - most probaply because I > left it running for too long due to my Squeezebox. > > This sort of thing scares me a lot. I reckon I'll have spent 36 hours > ripping all my music when I'm done, and there will be around 100GB of > data. How do you go about backing this sort of thing up? The only > really feasible thing I can think of is to buy a second hard disk and > use RAID 1 (mirrored pair of disks). After that, I just have to hope > that something doesn't happen that takes out the whole computer. Has > anyone else got any workable solutions? > > -- "The biggest problem encountered while trying to design a system that was completely foolproof, was, that people tended to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
