Also, my former employer uses USB hard drives for their backup solution. If you're just lookign for a backup solution, that may prove to be a better route than RAID.
WMM On 7/22/05, Joel Ebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > -- > 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 > -- http://warrenmyers.com "God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers." --Paul Erdős
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