epoch1970;406713 Wrote: > Interesting. > The drives were mounted by the OS, or simply on-line in the electrical > sense ? > (Generally I won't keep a backup volume mounted once the copy is done; > too many times I erased the backup and the original...)
I said "mounted filesystems," so they were mounted. In fact, the backup partition on the second drive was corrupted while doing a backup. So unmounting it after the backup would not have done any good. :) I think that mistakenly deleting files is one of the dangers of RAID being used for at least temporary backups. I have a script that removes write permissions from all directories and files, which gets run after things are added to the RAID volume. Kind of a pain, as backup scripts have to first restore write permission and then remove again afterward. However, keeps me from accidentally deleting something important (which I did once!). -- ncarver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ncarver's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15905 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61314 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
