Sorry, but RAID 1 is no replacement for backups. Your data is not only at risk from hardware failure but also from human error. If you inadvertently type rm -rf / tmp/* (note the extra blank) with sufficient rights under linux, you're screwed (yeah, done that).
Actually, the best (and cheapest, easiest) option in the case of most music stores (which tend to rarely change) is to use a second (non-RAID) disk and nightly synchronisations using something like rsync (local or over the network). I'm lazy as well but my crontab is very patient and perseverant. Ideally you would do this with an off site machine, but another local machine or even a seperate drive in your single machine would be ok too. Regards, Peter On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 07:09:16 -0700, "Jochen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I also thought about getting one of these nice NAS devices, but decided > against it for a simple reason: Data security. If the hard disk in my > fancy new NAS dies, all music is gone, unless I keep a copy of it > elsewhere. But as the main idea of getting a Squeezebox and a central > music server was to have everything in one place, this seems > contradictive. Keeping a backup and the main server in sync would also > be quite difficult, especially if you're lazy ;) > > Therefore I got a cheap used PC off eBay for about 80 EUR, put in two > 250 GB IDE disks for another 120 EUR and installed Linux on it. I've > set up a (software) RAID-1 to have all the data mirrored. Adding more > disk space is easy, I just need to get a new pair of disks, plug them > in and mount the additional device. Doing this with a stand-alone NAS > will be difficult, especially as SlimServer can only deal with one > source directory for the music it serves. > > A RAID-capable NAS device would have been an option, but comparing > prices, the PC solution wins hands down. > > > -- > Jochen > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jochen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5682 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24634 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
