On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:51:23PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote: > Does it work reliably? (general question) This idea of mirroring > in a hot swap where you rip one out[1] to act as the back up has > to be considered carefully.
I wasn't talking about ripping a drive out during mirroring. I was talking about using it purely as a backup drive, as you would a tape device: mount the drive when you need to, copy the files you need to it, then umount it when you're done. Proceed to safely hotswap drive. > The biggest problem is how quickly does the new drive get > replicated and what performance hit does the workload take. True, but irrelevant for the scenario I'm talking about :). > These devices always lose out to tape when you start to consider a > genuine multi-generational backup system (GFS). The cost of platters > really add up and the platters do not store that much stuff.. Yeah, it really does depend on how much capacity you want to back up. Hard disks are by far the most cost-effective option for me, but I'm not everybody (if I were, we'd all be using zsh ;). -- #ozone/algorithm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - trust.in.love.to.save -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
