Drive mirroring - opinion wanted

[John Abreau]

The part I consider most important is the automated part.
If the process is manual, then it won't be followed reliably.


On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jerry Feldman<gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 06/06/2009 02:41 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
>>
>> Ultimately, it depends on monitoring.  If you have a mechanism that  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  chunk of the 1TB
>> disk for regular, automated backups that do notify  you if there is a fault.
>>
>
> I check my nightly backup logs frequentl;y. I back up to a USB device which
> has the additional feature of being portable. In the case of a lightning
> strike, all 3 drives will have been cremated :-)
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