On 04.03.2008 15:56, Some user wrote: > > Ok, long story short I have tried and tried to get a solution that I feel > comfortable with. I'm after an effective RAID1, but the cheap ass > PCI-IDE-RAID card I had originally would refuse to see a HDD. I since got a > nicer adaptec one, same problem so I now see a problem with HDD instead off > PCI-card (which I'm a little surprised of to be honest). This lost my > confidence in RAID, not RAID specifically but my available implementation. > > All I am trying to stop is HDD failure loosing EVERYTHING, i have had four > HDD's go in the last year, a 120Gb, a 300Gb and two 80's. Almost everything > was backed up, but still lost some stuff which annoys me as, being a geek, > this shouldn't happen. > > So... I decided to go for Rsync. > Upside - simple(ish), possible with nonidentical HDD's, can have more than > one spare at a time (running a batch script safer than creating > duplicate/backup RAID disks, also can keep one HDD offsite with parents > etc), can be imported to another machine with no RAID > > Downside - has to be updated(prob once every other week/once a month)... > manually, hot swapping not possible (not an issue)
I personally use a pair of eSATA HDDs for backups. The enclosure doesn't cost very much (35 EUR + HDD in my case). SATA hotplugging works like a charm, when you have the right chipset. In my case that's AHCI (Intel Mainboard) which supports hotplugging for >1 year. Additonally most eSATA enclosures also have a USB connector, and everybody(tm) has USB. So there also shouldn't be a problem with connectability on other peoples computers with such an enclosure. And even if you don't have SATA/eSATA, USB is still fast enough(tm) in most cases! Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
