Hello Brant, Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 11:10:22 AM, you wrote:
BF> They don't make a single drive larger than what Mandrake can BF> handle as far as I know. Very nice! BF> Are you planning on using RAID to group a bunch of drives BF> together? If you are planning on using RAID it's also unlikely BF> you will outgrow what Mandrake can handle. I wasn't - I seem to have reasonable reliability with current HD's, and can afford a short recovery process if need be. BF> The file size and file system limit for the reiserfs file system BF> is 17.6 TB on 32 bit systems. I'm using ext3 now. Is that also huge? BF> The short answer is: money is what determines the largest disk size that BF> you can use with Mandrake. :-) Ah, yes. There's always *that* limit. :-) >> >>This brings up the issue of complete backups, most likely to another >>drive in a removable bay. What is the most reliable/easiest/fastest >>way to do: >> >>(1) a complete backup (one that can restore a bare computer to the way >>it was). >> >>(2) a backup of just 'data' files (simple copies of many dirs). >> >> >> BF> It depends on what your needs are. Do you want to be able to restore BF> the entire drive or just the data files? Both. I do periodic complete/disaster backups, with much more frequent data-only backups. [Yeah, yeah, I know - I should do more frequent backups.... This is a recorded announcement.] :-) -- Thank you, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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