Craig, Your last paragraph says it all for me. I'm more focused on fire, flood, theft, lightning strike, and power outage than media failure per se.
Which reminds me: I've got a good little UPS whose SLA battery is quite dead. Need to get to Jaycar or Altronics and replace the battery with a new one. Carl On 23/04/14 17:13, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 05:01:18PM +1000, Carl Turney wrote: >> Yeah, my style of "restoring" isn't that common an occurrence, so >> editing the relevant files on the rare occasion would be OK. > > BTW, an even better alternative is to just leave both drives in the > system, configured as a RAID-1 set. as long as you have grub installed > into the MBR of both drives, it would never matter if one drive died, > the other would still keep working and you'd be able to boot without any > fuss. > > if/when a drive dies, just replace it and tell mdadm about it and it > will automatically sync everything to the the replacement. > > > > of course, RAID is not a substitute for backup (it doesn't save you from > hasty deletes or disasters like fires) so it would be a good idea to > have a third, removable, drive to keep on backing up your system to. > > craig > _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
