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[ILUG] OT: mirroring an external drive

[ILUG] OT: mirroring an external drive

Brendan Kehoe brendan at zen.org
Tue Aug 12 20:34:37 IST 2008


> A single backup drive is not a single point of failure.  If the backup
> drive fails, you still have your running machines.  Just go get a new
> backup drive and start again.  Nothing lost.
>
> Assuming of course that you do an occasional restore test...
>   

That's true.  But, there was an underlying cause for my worries... I 
expect it'll be a backup drive and, also, a common place for storing 
piles of crap that doesn't have to stay on laptops, or needs to come off 
old disks.

B




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