RAID1 protects against physical disk disaster, but not logical problems. For example, if your database is corrupted, with a RAID1 scheme it is corrupted on both copies.
Scott Ledbetter StorageTek -----Original Message----- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: August 14, 2002 8:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cloning i386 Hard Drives - Like DDR On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 04:58, you wrote: > Aaah, good - that's what I thought you meant. Yes, of course it would be > best to shutdown the system before cloning the disk, but what I intend to > do is just backup my running system to a spare hard drive (of identical > size and geometry) in the middle of the night via a cron job. So worse > case, it should be the same as recovering from a sudden power-off (which > shouldn't be too bad). I may shutdown sendmail, imap, httpd and a few > others guys before doing the backup since they should be the only things > (of any importance) that might update important files. Why not just implement RAID1? -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/
