Lost Viking wrote:
Yes, this is exactly my intention. And the old server will be useful anyway. Lot of stuff here to be safely stored using RAID (photos, videos, documents, etc.)
RAID doesn't protect against a lot of things. In domestic situations you're usually better off with some kind of (daily) mirror or snapshot (rsnapshot) system.
I run an rsnapshot backup of all my important files (documents, photo's, personal video's, music) every night. The disadvantage of this approach is that any files changed during a day may be lost if a disk fails between the change and the time the snapshot is taken. For me this is a small but acceptable risk.
When someone or someone wipes your disk clean with a badly placed 'rm -rf' your RAID won't save you. I maybe particularly clumsy, but I've lost more files to human error than to failing hard disks.
My snapshots are stored on a colo server in a different city so my backup solution should be nuke-proof, even if I'm not :(
http://www.rsnapshot.org/ Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
