jsprag wrote: > Mistaken deletions are the main reason I don't like RAID for my > situation. Loss of data is far more likely to come from fat fingering > than it is from hardware failure.
Right, and RAID mirroring isn't generally trying to minimise data loss, it's trying to maximise uptime. Your rsync gives you something that RAID mirroring doesn't: a window to detect user error. RAID mirroring gives something that your rsync doesn't: the ability to survive disk failure without any loss of availability. Different goals. A nice combination might be provided by using the ZFS filesystem, if you're on Solaris/OpenSolaris (or MacOS). Mirror the disks for availability, and use ZFS's snapshot facility for protection against fat-fingers, and even better without having to dedicate twice the disk space to do it (like rsync does). That's how I'll be running SC on my new system... cheers, calum. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
