Peter;166224 Wrote: > 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
Thank you for your thoughts/ideas. I do not rely on RAID only. In additon I am snapshotting my data once in a while. What I haven't implemented so far is an automation of this procedure. Maybe the program you mentioned is the missing link, I will have a close look on it. -- Lost Viking ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lost Viking's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9290 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31095 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
