Hi, On Mon, Mar 4, 2013, at 07:53 AM, etanneh...@godaddy.com wrote: > What is your goal of the second copy?
To have access to at least 1 fully recoverable, ideally very recent, backup in the case that the 'main' backup(s) on the NAS are, for whatever reason, 'bad'. > What scenarios are you protecting against? (1) Destructive, unrecoverable degradation/failure of the RAID array (2) Physical destruction of the RAID array Both have happened here in the past ... And I'd like to integrate/automate this backup-of-backups into my Bacula-centric backup strategy/procedure to minimize PEBKAC. > What is the failure rate of your NAS device? (a raid 5 device with hot > spare has very minimal risk of data loss to begin with wheras a single > hard drive in a SOHO device has much larger risk) I can't quote you a specific failure rate. The NAS device is a 4-disk RAID-10 array. It's a software array; linux md created & managed. The Array is physically It's connected to its dedicated PC via a PCI-mounted JBOD Sata card. > No this doesn't point to either of your provided solutions, but my > questions get to the heart of the issue :) Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
