Software Raid 5 (FC5)

[Benjamin Franz]

On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Ian Pilcher wrote:

> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> If it isn't too big, a dvd writer might be a solution.  My
>> preference is to have another machine on the network running
>> backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) so there is always
>> an on-line copy with at least a week of history in case you
>> accidentally delete something.  Then I periodically raid-mirror
>> that to an external drive that is rotated offsite.
>
> A 200GB music collection would take ~50 DVDs.

It should take 24 dual layer disks. Regardless, the correct way to look at 
it is "if my hard drive died tomorrow, would it be worth the time and 
money to me for 50 recordable DVDs to recover?" If the answer is yes - 
start burning them now and store them somewhere safe.

There are more convienent solutions like backuppc or g4l, but it depends 
entirely on _how much_ the data on the drive is worth to you vs how much 
money you want to trade for convienent solutions.

Personally, I have a complete set of automated 8x daily, 5x weekly, 4x 
monthly, 3x quarterly and 2x semiannual backups for my personal data in 
Linux made nightly by a script using rsync over ssh as well as an external 
'OneTouch' USB drive I use for my WinXP backups (I don't boot windows very 
often, so I just back it up manually).

I like my data.

-- 
Benjamin Franz

If you can't handle reality, it *will* handle you.