View Single Post
Old 06-06-2011, 06:18 AM   #21
Rathji
Franchise Player
 
Rathji's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Supporting Urban Sprawl
Exp:
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by sclitheroe View Post
Also - running RAID-1 on your backups is a waste of time. Far better off to have two seperate copies, because that eliminates the possibility of file system corruption from mirroring between the backup disks.

Two disks, two enclosures, two power supplies is far better than a dual bay RAID box, for backup purposes.
Alternating backups is an ideal plan but most people want, and NEED, something to happen automatically or it wont get done. In the perfect world, I agree totally but I think that a simpler solution gets more accomplished than the one that is more work, more times than not.

I guess you could still set up a scheduled backup to 2 separate drives, but that would require software that supports that, (or 2 separate backup programs)
__________________
"Wake up, Luigi! The only time plumbers sleep on the job is when we're working by the hour."
Rathji is offline   Reply With Quote