Drive mirroring - opinion wanted

Jerry Feldman gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
Sat Jun 6 16:34:15 EDT 2009


On 06/06/2009 02:41 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Ultimately, it depends on monitoring.  If you have a mechanism that =20
> will alert you to a fault then mirroring is fine.  If you do not then  =

> you're probably better off keeping things as they are and using a =20
> chunk of the 1TB disk for regular, automated backups that do notify =20
> you if there is a fault.
>  =20
I check my nightly backup logs frequentl;y. I back up to a USB device=20
which has the additional feature of being portable. In the case of a=20
lightning strike, all 3 drives will have been cremated :-)

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