It depends on your goal. What are you trying to prevent here. This is
the classic RAID vs backup scenario. If you are trying to protect
against accidental file deletion, then a nightly rsync is better.
That's a backup solution. If you are trying to protect from hardware
failure, then set up software RAID 1. It's not hard to do. Just check
out the Linux Software RAID HOWTO. Many distributions allow you to set
it up easily during the install. If the data is important, you really
need both. So go with the software RAID, and look into an external
backup solution as well.
And I'd have to recommend linux software RAID over the RAID built into
many chipsets. The software RAID is much easier to monitor, maintain,
and recover from.
Joel
Dean Price wrote:
I am preparing to build a Linux SMB file server
the OS will go on the IDE drive
two 250GB SATA drives will be used for the data
The shop this box is going into will be closed (no work) over night.
My question is this
Would it be best ( more effiecient ) to create a linux raid mirror with
the two drives.
or
set the drives up static (sda1 and sdb1) and create a cron job the will
dd sda to sdb.
Thoughts and comments please.
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