At 1:03 PM -0600 1/3/05, Eric F Crist wrote:
On Jan 3, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Andrew P. wrote:
Eric F Crist wrote:
You seem to be under the impression that I'm doing this for the
sole reason of a disk crash. I'm actually doing it for more
than just that reason. For example, if my system gets hacked,
most hackers will probably not care about an unmounted hard
drive, and screw with the current mounted partitions. [...etc...]
Backing up with dd is ultimately straightforward, but is not a
good idea at all. The matter is when dd is running, the source
may be modified and the copy might be inconsistent. Software RAID
should be the best option for your task: you can mirror a drive
to a second one and then just plug the second one out of your
computer.
Best wishes,
Andrew P.
Is this vinum? Fairly difficult to setup, or is it straight-forward?
Before I delve into that, any setup recommendations?
Software raid seems like a messy way to handle this, when all he
wants is straight copies of the partitions. Much easier to mount
and umount some destination-partition(s), than it is to unplug a
hard drive.
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