mustbemad;173078 Wrote: > Cos if I'm using one machine & the power supply catches fire - or > something similar - I'd potentially lose both disks. With two - the > house my burn down, but maybe I'd still have data in one place! > > Thanks for the replys guys! I am running Linux - Debian on one > machine, and Xebian on the other - a hacked Xbox - fun but a tad slow > for snappy page loads on Slimserver. > > I think I'll source another big disk & clone to that before I mess > about with it in any other ways...
Far be it from me to discourage someone from hacking an Xbox...I'm running XBMC on a hacked xbox myself and couldn't be happier with the results. If you're happy with your power bills from running a couple servers 24/7, what you are doing should work just fine (my recommendation of rsnapshot would still apply well here). You're going to draw less power if you keep your drive backups to one machine though. I don't have real data for this, but I'm willing to bet that power supply fires happen a few orders of magnitude less frequently than HD failures. In the context of drive backups, it's just not something I worry about. Also FWIW, truly important data needs to periodically get written to something less error-prone than HDs. For me, "truly important data" = digital pics and my music library. I do a less frequent backup to DVD-Rs (~ quarterly) that I physically store at a friend's house. It's not that I'm worried that my house is going to burn down, but if it were to catch ablaze, I'd like to avoid the inevitable moronic thought "Honey, get the kids! I have to run downstairs and grab my server!" ;) #!/ben -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31963 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
