Re: Disk mirroring - rsync - backup methodology

2001-05-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi oki yes..yes... your bnackup mechanism and backup implementation will protect you against only certain failures... a single backup methodology will NOT protect you against various failure modes and yes... if you create a bad file or corrupt a file... and you use raid1 to mirror your data...

Re: Disk mirroring - rsync

2001-05-14 Thread Oki DZ
Alvin Oga wrote: > each time youupdate lilo.conf or add new kernels and modules, > you'd have to remember to rerun lilo on the backup disk > ( assuming that is to be a hard disk bootable replacement > - order of magnitude easier ot do raid1 in this case I don't think that I'd copy the ker

Re: Disk mirroring - rsync

2001-05-14 Thread Alvin Oga
> > 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