On Mon, 07 May 2012 01:09:13 +0530, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
And as for the "strain" when one member dies, how is this "strain" different than the daily thrashing of rsync?
not much, only that it happens all at once, perhaps when the disk is already well advanced in it's life.
I have software raid 1, and raid 5 arrays where a disk has failedand the rebuild happened without any un-availability, and happened in the background such that the users were never even aware it was happening.
I use Rsync between machines (some offsite) and raid 1 within a machine. I'm a belt and suspenders sort of guy.
:) i like that; but right now i can't afford both, so have to go for one or the other.
Raid, especially Raid 1 is as easy as falling off a log these days.
that's what i'm suspecting. never used raid; only LVM once, when trying out fedora, and i didn't like much either of them. would it be correct to say security-wise it's a toss, RAID1 or rsync? if the answer to that was "yes," i'd go with RAID. less trouble day-to-day, and i'd learn something new. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org