Like most people, I had got use the reliability of modern disk systems, to the point of stopping backups to CD and DVD and relying on SATA RAID.
Oh what a mistake, I updated my mother board to the latest version with on-board SATA RAID. The initial boot and view of all the hardware looked good indeed I used the system for a few days with no problems. It was when I came to add new images to the RAID drives that it all went skew wiff; I seem to have after much investigation (I initially blamed Microsoft on SP2) have a hardware fault on the mother board with the SATA RAID controller; it effectively made both disks unreadable. I would personally now use either tape or DVD RW for incremental backups perhaps running overnight. Tape would be faster than DVD. Remember you don't expect to recover data on a daily basis. Hope this helps Jim =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
