> Rob Owens wrote: > >> Les, >> >> In the past you've talked about using software RAID 1 with hotplugable >> drives. Have you tried it? Does it work well? And would it work >> with USB drives? >> > > Yes, the way I am doing it is with a Linux software RAID1 created with 3 > members with one specified as 'missing'. There are 2 internal drives > that always stay in sync, and a pair of external drives that are rotated > in weekly as the 3rd member, then when the sync is completed I briefly > stop backuppc, unmount the partition, then fail and remove the external > drive from the raid. This does work and I think it is reliable. You > can leave it mounted while while the sync happens although it slows down > a lot if a backup is running. I use dual interface firewire/USB external > drives that normally take about 2 hours to sync a 250 gig partition over > firewire, and can mount it via USB in my laptop for immediate restores. To restore from your laptop, you obviously need to have BackupPC installed (I think). Is there any other special configuration required, other than symlinking /var/lib/backuppc to point to the USB drive?
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