On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ledbetter, Scott E wrote: > 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.
I I understand that very well, but if that's your concern, cloning the disk won't address it either. > > 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. Please, no off-list mail. You will fall foul of my spam treatment. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
