On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 13:53, Chris Merrill wrote: > The other RAID thread got me thinking...my home server finally has enough > important stuff on it to be worth doing some sort of backups (IOW, I'm not > just playing around, anymore). > > However, I have a strong (and possibly irrational) aversion to tape drives. > Would a simple RAID IDE setup keep me backed up? In other words, can I set > it up to essentially mirror one drive onto the other? > > I saw the following on eBay...would it suffice for my needs? > "3WARE DUAL IDE RAID CONTROLLER MODEL: 7000-2" > > TIA, > Chris > > p.s. > I realize that this would only protect me from hardware failure - not > accidentally deleting a file that I really need. Hardware failure is my > primary concern, since it is running on old hardware (350MHz, 6G drive). > Protect yourself from both accidental deletion and hardware failure... Install the second IDE drive and simply do daily backups (automate them via CRON).
I generally keep a daily backup, and a weekly backup on my secondary IDE drive. Works a charm, and has saved me at least once from my kids deleting my home directory (now they have their own logins...) Jon -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
