cdmackay;406809 Wrote: > 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.
Good summation. The two aren't mutually exclusive, of course. If a user wanted they could have RAID mirroring, another internal drive for nightly (or any other interval) backups, and an external backup. Starts to add up to a lot of drives though... cdmackay;406809 Wrote: > > 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. Interesting thought. Not that familiar with Solaris or ZFS but might be worth looking into. -- jsprag ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jsprag's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14437 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61314 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
