Hi. On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 09:55:06AM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> writes: > > > >Automatic mirroring / synchronizing is unsuitable for backups, because > >it will also sync accidental changes to files (including deletions) or > >filesystem corruptions in case of power outage or system crash (that may > >lead to corrupted files or entire directories "disappearing"). > > BUT - once you have hardware reliable storage (raid1) you can do backups > into the same disks you are backing up!
And what purpose would it serve? IMO it's not a backup unless it's stored in a way that's inaccessible to the system its taken from (until it's actually needed of course). Reco