Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1125 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

phanisvara das wrote:

> after seeing a few threads re. RAID arrays, problems booting off them,
> and extra strain the surviving member of an array is put under when it
> has to sync a new HDD after it's (only) brother's failure, i doubt the
> wisdom of my original idea to set up two identical 2TB drives as RAID1
> array.
>
> wouldn't it be safer (not to mention simpler) to just rsync the simple
> directory tree i'm concerned about to the other HDD every 15 min or
> so? if either of the two HDDs fails, the other one still has the
> important data.

I do both - my workstation is RAID1, and I run a daily rsync backup of
essential config and data.  My plain back office deskyop systems are
not RAID, but /home is kept on a fileserver, so a failing desktop is
easily replaced.

RAID is not about backup, but about availability. 

> it's not my desktop, but a file server i'm putting together for my
> employer. 

A file server that doesn't use RAID?? 



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Per Jessen, Zürich (13.8°C)

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