On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:26:54 +, li...@fractal.me.uk said:
As a counter, I would not advise RAID for this ... it will protect
against hdd failure but that's all.
And that is all it is meant to do (OK, some RAID configurations will also
provide increased throughput).
Do not confuse RAID
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:48:59 -
Mike Austin mja...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Perhaps this thread should become What's In A Name?. Words often
change their usage and, therefore, meaning. 50 years ago the word
gay had a different meaning than now.
Perhaps in this case it wasn't a change of usage
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:51:14 +
john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk wrote:
After the festivities are out of the way will have to look at getting
better graphics working by setting up an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
Have almost forgotten how to do that ;-)
seems that dpkg-reconfigure
On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 08:59 +, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:26:54 +, li...@fractal.me.uk said:
As a counter, I would not advise RAID for this ... it will protect
against hdd failure but that's all.
And that is all it is meant to do (OK, some RAID configurations
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:34:20 +, gor...@gscott.co.uk said:
After some questions on this list a little while back, I'm using
BackupPC to take overnight backups
Good choice! Highly recommended.
--
You can have everything in life you want if you help enough other people
get what they want -
On 28 December 2011 11:34, Gordon Scott gor...@gscott.co.uk wrote:
That depends upon the RAID level. Raid zero offers no redundancy
whatsoever, It's sole purpose is to increase throughput.
Raid one is disc-for-disc mirroring, so offers 100% redundancy and it
therefore a data backup, though
On 28 December 2011 10:06, john lewis johnle...@hantslug.org.uk wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:48:59 -
Mike Austin mja...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Perhaps this thread should become What's In A Name?. Words often
change their usage and, therefore, meaning. 50 years ago the word
gay had a
Hi Leo,
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:26:54AM +, Leo wrote:
As a counter, I would not advise RAID for this (assuming we're talking about
RAID1 or better, rather than RAID0). It will protect against hdd failure but
that's all.
If the time to restore the service (e.g. by rebuilding the
