An optimistic thought, indeed. This assumes, of course, that your RAID setup never gets hosed, that users never delete a file they need, your site never suffers a fire, etc.
We do mirroring, and rotate backups offsite. Not everyone needs to exercise that level of paranoia, but we do. And, it's even possible to have both sides of a mirror fail at once. It even happened to me once. (OK, we were using Micropolis drives, so maybe we got what we deserved, but still.) I concur with some people's assessment that Mac OS X should include at least some primitive backup solution that writes to tape (at least in the server version). Though I am happy they include RAID software, it's not necessarily enough for everyone. All that said, I saw a perl script once that (tarw) on macosxhints.com that purports to handle backups. Can't say much else about it (like whether is solves any of the problems posed), but at least I get to mention perl in this thread. John Gilmore-Baldwin > ---------- > From: Cranz, Gregory > Sent: Monday, October 8, 2001 2:52 PM > To: Cranz, Gregory; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: slightly off topic - looking for backup solution > > OS 10.1 includes SoftRAID. > > For disaster recovery, mirror your drives & do hardware redundancy. > Aliases > will no longer be an issue, and you will not have to restore your > data. > Just go buy a new drive mechanism when you hose one. > > - gregor42 > >
