Donald E Haselwood wrote:
>Would RAID-1 be a good idea to avoid the problems from that "yearly" HD crash?
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>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 do have my important data files well backed up, but if
>the partition holding the system fails it takes a lot of time to get
>everything setup. I was wondering if RAID-1 with a second HD would be better
>than, say, merely copying the whole partition, or some similar backup scheme.
>
>Don
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Raid one is good for HD failure. If data becomes corrupt, it is
mirrored to other HD. How 'far' you want to go backing up your data,
depends on how important would it be if you lost your data. If
important enough, consider several backup methods.
Pete
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