[clug] RAID-1 would have helped...

[Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au]

Well then there's other points of failure.

RAID is good, but no protection if the entire server gets fried
(unless you pull disk sets from the server on a regular basis
and lock them in a cupboard somewhere).

If bandwidth were cheap enough, I'd love to take a disk set to
a friend's house and then use rsync to duplicate my /home over there.

The demo was a hoot though. All those blinking floppy lights
reminded me of my Amiga 500. :o)

Antti

-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Freeman [mailto:daz111 at rsphy1.anu.edu.au]
Sent: Friday, 24 October 2003 4:26 PM
To: linux at samba.org
Subject: [clug] RAID-1 would have helped...


... my friend in Adelaide who had a 120 GB hard disc fail last night.
This drive lived in the family server which everyone stores their data
on. He may have lost his movie collection as a result.

Funny that it happens when I'm talking about how easy software RAID is
;) The first thing I knew about it he was asking about how to
software-RAID up his replacement drive.

Darren