On Tuesday 17 March 2015 05:11:33 pm Chris Howard - CBR wrote: > It is up to me to figure it out, that's for sure. > I am always glad to learn how to do it cheaper!
Cheaper is not always better ! Depends on how secure you want it to be ? An off-site is about as reliable as one can get. ( USB drives ) Failing that, I personally like putting three disks in a machine. Two of them make a RAID-1 array that is the "working" disk. The third is unmounted. That third is mounted by a cron job, which then rsyncs relevant files ( an update ) then dis-mounts the drive, and in some cases I even spin down the drive so that the run time is greatly different than the working drive. Some machines, that's a bad idea. Sometimes spinning them down they don't restart. YMMV. rsync can do a daily update in a few minutes without interrupting anything else running on the machine. The first run ( copy everything ) can take a while. If the unmounted drive is the same as ( preferred ) or larger than the RAID array drives, one can have a fully run-capable backup. If the RAID fails, change the boot drive in BIOS and go. > And you as a group, and you personally, have contributed > a lot to my education, for which I am very thankful! Your welcome ! -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com "If we were meant to fly, we wouldn't keep losing our luggage." _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
