Yea, more than RAID the best plan is to have good backups and even more important is a tested disaster recovery plan. Buy some blank hard drives and spend a holiday weekend testing "what if" we have a total data loss. In the long run IMO it will be more valuable than any RAID. I'll stick to taking full disk images and the like, but some people will go as far as storing their configs in a version management system like CVS. As far as I can tell Time Machine on MacOS is nothing more than rsync with a pretty interface and the usual Apple let's-make-this-proprietary-but-sort-of-open way of doing things. If you look at what they are doing as a whole you'll see what I mean, even my iPhone is just a little UNIX-like machine, all the voicemail. contacts, etc are stored in sqlite databases, but they always add their bit of proprietary stuff so it won't out-of-the-box interoperable. E.g. iTunes, AFP, etc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org