I had a drive failure yesterday so I am re-thinking my file server. I would like to setup my debian machine as my file server with two drives, each 20 GB or more. I would like one to mirror the other, either as a raid setup or just copying files that have changed every hour. The idea is not to protect me against stupidity, but against mechanical failure. I use the fileserver mainly for making a large number of images available on the network, and for components of collaborative design projects, also mainly images. A drive failure can set us back days, and I have found tape drives to be useless. Even if they do back everything up, it takes too long to find and restore anything. I'm looking at a couple of cheap Seagate 20 GB drives, I would even consider 3 drives in a parity raid if that was do-able. Any comnments?
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