On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:59:16AM +1100, xorprime wrote: > > > > > > Both back-up drives were in USB external cases. I suspect my back-up > > failed because of a dodgey power issue with the external case, but > > that's conjecture at this point. > > > > External drives are ok for me as long as it has some Raid on it (at least > Raid 5). Single drive backup is like an optical backup with a lot of > rewrites ;-)
Here is an interesting article on raid5. Its a case of horse for courses. My setup. I have 3 server, 2 at my place. 1 primary file server, files copied over to the second server. The second server copies its files over to the third server which is offsite. All disk space is raid1 (or better - used to use raid5) The schedules for the rsync allow me some lee way to restore accidentally deleted files - but that isn't the main goal for this scheme. I will soon be adding a 4 site (off site from both the others) why just incase one of my wan links are down. I keep all my important stuff on these file server, well important to me, photo's of babies and such And with the price of drives coming down..... I have just made a discision to archive my video camera footage as mpeg2 (the format it comes in), I am looking at getting 2 1T firewire or esata external drive cases. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- "I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically." - George W. Bush 03/29/2001 speaking at the Radio & Television Correspondents dinner
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