On 8/1/07, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Decent 500GB IDE drives are going for about Rs. 5K, which takes care of > 8-10 months of storage. If you really care for the data, buy two, and > make a software RAID array out of them.
Agreed. In fact I would suggest that you make the 500GB RAID 1 setup your primary data storage partition. This would give you protection against a single disc (out of the two 500GB) failing. Increased read performance will be a side effect! You additionally require off-disk backups if you want to protect against accidental deletion / file system corruption. rsync is the way to go, as always. As Gora said, to what extent you go in the backup game depends on how paranoid you are about your data. -- Vipul Mathur vipul.mathur[at]gmail.com http://www.vipulmathur.org/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
