> On Friday 06 May 2005 12:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Om going to change my server to a raid 1 today. I will use the live cd >> for >> setting up the raid, but i'm going to backup it and when the miror is >> created then i will restore it. I have two options, backup with tar to >> my >> tape drive and tar to a disk, are there special things i must keep in >> mind >> ? I know two backups are always better. > > well, if it is a good tape drive, I would prefer it - I never saw a tape > drive > dying, but a handfull of hard disks... > -- Well, it happend to me, we had to backup a server compleet to tapes about 500GB. Erased the disks and then saw that there was a problem whith the head of our tape drive. The day before we backup we have tested the drive and no problems, it broke down with on the last tape during the backup, a good thing was that that we had 3 days to find a new drive and restore it all. We managed to restore 98%
So now i check always after the backup, its one of those lessons of life. Patrick -- [email protected] mailing list
