Re: New Debian net install on a SATA server?

[Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>]

RAID != Backup!!!

RAID = if you write bad data to one disk, you get it everywhere.

Backup = If you write bad data to a disk, you can roll back to it.

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Nate Duehr, nate@natetech.com

On Aug 23, 2004, at 7:07 AM, Volker Tanger wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:00:37 -0500 "Penbrock" <penbrock@penbrock.com>
> wrote:
> > 	For backups is RAID the best way to go? For this server it is
> > 	more important to be able to restore the data then to have the
> > 	system back up and running in seconds. I hear allot of people
> > 	saying to just make the second drive an image of the first and
> > 	then run an hourly cron job to copy the/home/ directories?
>
> yes - best locally *AND* to "warm standby" backup servers (placed at
> different locations spread over the campus) that is mirroring the data
> and performing its own backup.
>
> See http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ for ideas of
> HD-based backup/mirror.
>
> Bye
>
> Volker Tanger
> ITK Security
>
>
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