Sweet. How had it been set up? two drives, same controller?
different controllers? and how often do you run the cron job, or do
you just have a (while true; do rsync; sleep; done) loop of some sort?
I've suggested this general approach at a couple of startups; at the
last one, we'd just gotten the machine set up when we got bought out
and it became irrelevant, so it is nice to hear a story justifying the
effort... especially the fast *restore* time; it's a good answer to
the "oh, we just dump to tape" approach..