JJZolx wrote: > Robin Bowes Wrote: > >>>1) Original CDs in storage >>>2) Copy of ripped music on 2 different hard drives >>>3) Copy burned to 2 sets of DVD-Rs, one off-site >>>4) Copy on a RAID 5 NAS[/color] >> >>That's nice and thorough. >> >>I'm not quite there yet. I've currently got: >> >>1. Original CDs in storage. Well, for *most* of my collection ;) >>2. Ripped music on RAID5 drive (linux software RAID). Server on UPS. >>3. Copy of music on 500GB drive in Xbox offsite. >> >>I really must get round to either burning to DVD-R or 15GB DLTs before >>the inevitable happens. > > What's the "inevitable"? A freak tornado hits both your house and your > offsite backup location and blows away your original CDs, your RAID 5 > array and the XBox backup? You must live under a very dark cloud if > you think that's inevitable.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. Whilst I have a (nearly) full back up of my lossless collection (18GB of Mozart wouldn't fit on the 500GB drive) I need to back up my lossy collection, plus DR backups for the rest of my systems. As for the inevitable, it's exceedingly common for >1 drives to fail in a RAID5 system because the stress of rebuilding the array following a failure often causes one or more of the the other drives to fail too. I don't worry about whether my discs will fail or not - they will, it's just a matter of time. R. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
