On Wed, March 15, 2006 10:53 am, Hadley Rich wrote: > On Wednesday 15 March 2006 10:36, Craig FALCONER wrote: >> Okay - I'd call that Fault Tolerance, not a backup solution. >> >> The rsync to a remote box is defintely a good answer. That's how I >> backup >> all my linux boxes here. > > Sorry, I guess I didn't explain myself clearly enough. Twice. > > I wasn't planning on mirroring all of the drives. I was planning on > backing up > the main array onto one of the hotswap drives using a bit of bash and > rsync > magic again. Then the two backup drives can be rotated offsite as well as > having the rsync'd backup online somewhere else. > > hads > > -- > I hear the sound that the machines make, and feel my heart break, just > for a moment. > > I backup through SATA drives ( dedicated server with hw mirrored disks ), using a removable drive caddy. As SATA is hot swap, this works great. MUCH faster than USB drives, and the caddies are only $50 or so each.
Best of all worlds. Also, what software are you going to use to recover all those files the punters accidentally delete? Last time I looked, arkeia still allowed for free disk to disk backups, although IMO they've just about bloated themselves out of usefulness. Steve -- Let us have a moment of silence for all Americans who are now stuck in traffic on their way to a health club to ride a stationary bicycle. - Congressman Earl Blumenauer (Oregon)
