I know this is off-topic, but since it was brought up ;)
Why not use an old disk, outside of the RAID, for backups? I mount old
IDE drives for backups only: tarring the entire system to the backup
drive once a week, changed files daily. Seems to work better for me than
tapes which always had problems, but maybe I had a poor tape system.
When I've had to re-install the OS on test machines because I bungled
something, it seems to work well and quickly. But maybe I'm missing
something?
Jeff
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>
> Use tape! Raid shouldn't replace tapes, they serve different (but
> sometimes similar) purposes.
>
> Phil
>
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:38:11PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > >
> > > Are you talking about going from RAID to non-RAID?
> >
> > Actually, I'm talking about OS failures, not disk failures. RAID protects
> > against disk railures, thus redundant array of disks, but doesn't do jack
> > for when the OS goes to hell. For production servers (where I work, at
> > least), disk failures are about equal with OS failures. For test servers,
> > 100% of my failures are when I screw up the OS.
> > Greg
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