On 8 Jun 2009 , freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org entreated about "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 262, Issue 2":
> Message: 13 > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:18:09 +0200 (CEST) > From: Wojciech Puchar <woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> > > SO, to the original question, yes that motherboard will work just > > fine. What are you doing for system backups? A single drive is not > > enough. I recommend a mirror pair at least, and suggest a second box > > why? it's a backup system not main system. >From his original it seemd he would be using a single drive for the system and a mirror pair for data. Seems I got it wrong and the single drive will be for 'some other purpose'. Fine, but all the more reason to back it up. A backup server is not the place to avoid data security. From personal experience I can tell you that life is hell when your backup drives are needed but don't work. My backup server has a mirror pair for the data, and that gets copied to an external drive which lives off site. And I'm not sure I've got enough backups.... yet (-: -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"