I agree that if you can only do one or the other, backups make more sense, assuming the backups do proper versioning.
But for me, I do both. I take the backups for peace of mind, but if I have a drive failure, I like being able to be back up and running quickly. I've had one drive failure in my 8 years or so with this RAID setup, and the rapidity with which I was back up and running was well worth it for me. On 4/28/07, Mark Lanctot < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
mortslim;198140 Wrote: > well raid for mirroring does have some benefit if you like the idea of > an immediate backup without the need to do a manual or scheduled > backup. this helps when one of two drives goes bad. But what if you get a virus? What if you delete something you wish you hadn't? Sorry, too bad, the changes get written to the second drive immediately. RAID 1 will help you in the event of disc failure and nothing else. It is not a backup. You'd be much better advised to use the second disc in an external backup before considering RAID 1. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34845 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
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