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?
My personal setup has been like so: Linux Box with: 30gb boot hard drive 3ware raid controller with two 250gb drives in a raid 1 mirror a single 250gb drive on a controller card All my mp3's (currently 25,845 of them) are on the raid mirror, and every hour a rsync script runs to backup the raid mirror to the single 250gb drive. Recently I just had the boot drive seize on me so I've had to rebuild the box. I took the time to move the guts into a rack mount server case. However, I lost one of the drive bays due to the case size. I've since moved the single 250gb drive to a firewire enclosure and attached it to my mac. I still do the rsync backup of the mirror but it's now going to another computer instead of self contained. A touch safer since it's not all in the same box. However, it is in the same room, in the same city, in the same state, in the same country... It depends on how paranoid you really want to get about disaster recovery. -Healy -- healy _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
