On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:24:45AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/21/2009 11:30 PM, Matthew Moore wrote: > >On Wednesday 21 January 2009 09:13:07 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
> >That is exactly what I would do. Everyone warns about how cataclysmic > >things will happen because your new uber-device has the same failrate as a > >raid-0 setup, but as long as you backup regularly (perhaps to another LV > >made from PV's on different disks) this isn't too much to worry about. > > Backing up 2+ TB of data will require another 2x 1TB drives. And > *another* dual-drive external enclosure. > > My wife will *not* be happy... Remember, though, that you're adding older drives to the uber-device. Even with new drives, the chance of failure increases with more devices. This is why RAID was invented. As for backing up multi-TB datasets, this is why tape drives were invented. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
