On 12/07/2007 07:31 PM, Damon Register wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: >> It is sometimes safer to have two disks not mounted as a raid, but a >> backup, updated daily (or as needed) and then umounted. Why? Because >> if you erase by accident a tree, or a program goes mad, or the kernel >> crashes, you are not protected by a raid: both copies will go bad at >> the same time. Raid only protects you from hard disk failure. > I will go along with that. This is what an admin here at work suggested > for my home setup. I used to have a soft RAID1 setup on SuSE 9.1 but > the admin suggested that I would get slightly better performance without > the RAID and I get the advantage you mentioned. The admin suggesting > using > rsync and that has been working quite well for me. It isn't an either/or situation. you can have both, if your drives are big enough. Raid 1 has advantages, backup with rsync, etc. Personally I have raid 1, an external backup via rsync, and use a versioned backup via storeBackup to another raid1 partition. They work very well for their intended strengths.
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