Thanks for the feedback, Karel, Allan, and Kamil. The motivation is long-term data storage reliability. For example, my wife creates graphical books, which involves large files, plus other work and personal files.
Having a mirror is not terribly important, so doing a nightly sync to another machine is possible. Since it's been mentioned, what SATA RAID controller cards are recommended for OpenBSD on i386? I wonder if they would fit my budget. Has the "supported hardware" page been removed from the openbsd.org website? I only found such a page here: http://openbsd.das.ufsc.br/i386.html#hardware Thanks, -- Ian P.S., Karel, many Americans confuse loose/lose. :) On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Karel Gardas wrote: > loose -> lose. Sorry not native English speaker here. > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Karel Gardas <gard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How much data can you loose on this mirror? The rebuild time is long > > and the chance of another drive dying is higher during rebuild so I > > would consider either increasing redundancy to 3-way mirror or > > decreasing time between backups. All depending on how much data you > > can loose when something goes wrong. > >
