Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > best way ??? > > raid1 mirroring... ( assumes same/identical partition sizes ) > - anything you put on disk1 will get mirror'd to disk2 > - > - if you accidentally erase /foo.txt ... it gets erased on disk2 > too ... ( i see no point to that ...but... some folks like it )
The second disk is about twice in size; the partitions might be in different sizes. > > manually ( via cron ) backing up disk1 to disk2... is a good thing... Via cron would be better, I think. > depending on what you want on the backup disks... tar is better ??? > tar zcvf /mnt/backup_disk/backup.$date.tgz /etc /root /home I want to have the second disk bootable (via a floppy if needed). That's why I asked about rsync. Oki
