On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:03, Eben King wrote:
>
>> Well, I'd be very hesitant to back up to the same device. Yes, it
>> protects you from random filesystem damage, but I had a (30GB?) drive
>> where the best I could figure was the head periodically went across the
>> entire disk writing garbage. It wouldn't protect you from that, or from
>> any one of other systemic failures.
>
> You are right but he's not looking at backing up to the same device if he has
> raid-1.
True, but that's what's happening now. Or have I misread this:
,--
| A partition on my 160 GB drive that holds my Suse9.2 came up with errors.
| Fortunately, it was a partition that held some old backup files so nothing
| important was lost.
'--
I'm just saying that in my case, I looked at RAID and others, and chose my
current system. Presumably my requirements aren't _too_ bizarre...
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