--- Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com> wrote:
> avoid this issue. If you do it for a bit, it just becomes a habit
> that
> "just before you log out for the night, run the rsync to back
> everything
> up."
You could easily write a script that prompted you to run rsync whenever
you ran "halt." I wonder if you could do that with a graphical manager
like gdm? Probably...
> Two problems:
>
> 1) those "built-in RAID" are invariably all software-RAID that are
> only
> supported through Windows-only drivers.
Well, not all of them, but support under Linux has headaches sometimes.
Plus, on-board RAID is probably going to be nothing but a fake BIOS
trick that is all software controlled.
On the other hand, 3ware has true hardware RAID cards and fully
supports linux--even with open source drivers.
>
> 2) if there's filesystem corruption of some sort due to a software
> failure scrambling the filesystem, not hardware failure, the RAID
> will
> just mirror that failture onto both drives.
=====
Justin Keyes | m9u35@yahoo.com
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