Hello Dan RAID will make your machine more resistant against hardware crashes, but is no substitute for a backup (e.g. it does not protect against intrusions). If you do decide on mirroring, look for hardware raid (otherwise your system performance goes down the drain).
Choosing a backup method is another cup of tea. First ask yourself some questions: 1. what amount of data needs to be backed up? 2. what kind of data do I need to backup (databases?)? 3. Do I need operating system backups for fast recovery, or only data and configuration files? 4. What is the frequency? e.g. Weekly full backups, with Nightly incrementals? 5. Do I want to keep/store historical backups (e.g. the full dumps). 6. The most important one: what is my recovery plan/need (recovering from a complete crash by re-installing the OS, patching, restoring the config files and then untarring the data can consume a lot of time). If you figured this one out, your needs will help you choose between simple backup scripts (often using tar/gz or afio), or a larger solution like amanda (on tapes) or even a commercial application. In the last category, I can recommend Arkeia to you. I hope this helps, please, don't hesitate to ask if you need further advice. Kind regards Guy On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 13:54, Belkie, Dan wrote: > Hi Guys! > > I have a couple Mandrake boxes running on my network, and I would like to > know peoples opinions on the best way (also cost effective) to do a backup. > Now I know this depends on what the uptime that I require is but...... > > I have a firewall and another box that is a mail server (just relays to > another mail server) Would you guys suggest getting into disk mirroring / > RAID (does it work well?) if so what would the config have to be? 4 disks? 2 > for boot (and to mirror it) and 2 for data (and to mirror it) > > > What about just tar cvf backup.tar ./ > > Thoughts? > > Dan > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Guy Van Sanden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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