RAID != Backup!!!

RAID = if you write bad data to one disk, you get it everywhere.

Backup = If you write bad data to a disk, you can roll back to it.

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Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On Aug 23, 2004, at 7:07 AM, Volker Tanger wrote:

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:00:37 -0500 "Penbrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
        For backups is RAID the best way to go? For this server it is
        more important to be able to restore the data then to have the
        system back up and running in seconds. I hear allot of people
        saying to just make the second drive an image of the first and
        then run an hourly cron job to copy the/home/ directories?

yes - best locally *AND* to "warm standby" backup servers (placed at different locations spread over the campus) that is mirroring the data and performing its own backup.

See http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ for ideas of
HD-based backup/mirror.

Bye

Volker Tanger
ITK Security


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