Russ Edmunds wrote: > Simply put it's called BACK-UP. Yep.
Sometimes easier done when the files are small. Multi gigabytes of recorded audio or other extremely large files requires huge amounts of backup space on any backup machine. You wind up using more drives to get less reliability and speed than the preferred RAID solution. RAID isn't necessarily the best way to backup, especially for small amounts of data. As you mentioned, multiple backups and off-site backups (which I also have) are easy enough to do. But for huge amounts of data, you can't beat the automatic solution of RAID. On machines that I have here on the work network that have to run or public safety is in jeopardy, or machines I use for development, or other high-reliability production machines, virtually all have RAID file systems. I just don't want to shut the machine down and replace hardware. With RAID you don't. The machine never stops, just the bad drive gets replaced. If I had any data I didn't want to lose, and it was composed of lots of large files. RAID is the way I'd go. Rick Kunath _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
