Wow that's some pretty serious backup. I'm not sure why you'd want to backup to a RAID considering that HD mechanical failure is pretty rare these days and the chances of both your main drive and your backup drive suffering a simultaneous failure is pretty unlikely. Although RAID1 isn't a backup solution it is pretty much the same as duplication of drives although the duplication is constantly updated.
Ruben > Hehe, > > Lots of different opinions on this, no doubt – it all depends on the > importance of your info and your level of concern/paranoia – from the > ultra-conservative: > > Time machine backup to RAID+ > Bootable Clone to Raid+ > Rotating off-site backup+ > Cloud storage back-up > > All the way down to more streamlined (& economic) solutions! > > > > Personally, I have: > > Bootable clone on external Firewire drive > Time machine backup to external USB drive (though I use this manually rather > than automatically) > A Dropbox account – at present used more for synching between machines rather > than backup > Mobileme iDisk (I haven’t really decided on the best role for this yet) > An older firewire 1TB dual drive (2x 500GB) set-up as a 500GB mirrored Raid – > I use this mainly for stuff that I want some protection for but loss would > not be a tragedy eg some ripped DVDs and older clones of virtual machines > that I should probably erase but I’m not quite sure yet! > > It really boils down to what is important to you! - and remember that you do > not necessarily need the same strategy for all your data – those YouTube > downloads really aren’t as important as the family photos or the draft of > your literary masterpiece! > > Having said that, with the price of storage coming down all the time, for > general use, I tend to think that simple duplication of drives can be more > useful than the complexity of RAID. > > > Just my thoughts ;o) > > > Cheers > > > Neil > -- > Neil R. Houghton > Albany, Western Australia > Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 > Email: [email protected] > > > > on 7/1/11 6:52 PM, [email protected] at [email protected] wrote: > >> hi >> >> to those who do frequent backups: do you backup your important stuff to raid >> or just a normal external hard drive/portable drive will do it for you? >> >> i have my stuff backed up to a WD portable drive already, but thinking i can >> ditch that for a raid, but raid is not as portable as my current. >> >> any advise. >> >> many thanks! >> >> regards >> Lynn >> >> p/s: love my ipad!!!!! cant live without it! >> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
