Re: Backup solutions.

I have two 750G HD's setup RAID1 and I rotate a 3rd and 4th hotswap
removable 750G once a week for an offsite backup, unless a drive fails then
it jumps in as a spare. Now that I have my new budget and have already
upgraded some older hardware and moved a lot of services in house, I am
going to make it a four 750G RAID1+0 and keep the 5th and 6th for the weekly
offsite hotswap that way two drives can go down and I wont notice, if three
drives go at once then I guess it was just ment to be and I'm stuck with
week old data.

Bakken

On 6/4/07, Lance Levsen <lance@catprint.ca> wrote:
>
> Given Scott's problems today . . . hope you're back to normal stress
> levels Scott. :) I thought I'd ask what everyone uses for backup.
>
> I use RAID5 in two sites, but as the backup drive with regular
> SCSI/ATA/IDE as the normal use systems. I'm using dirvish to create
> seven incremental backups over rsync. Currently we're backing up about
> 350 or so Gig between Regina and Saskatoon.
>
> I guess this is two-fold. My real question is, am I paranoid enough? :)
>
> Obviously there are constraints. The data is more important than
> continuous uptime, so we choose to have a system go down for half a day
> replacing a store-bought drive from backup rather then relying on RAID
> for drive failure contingency.
>
> Anyone else do this?
>
> Cheers,
> lance
> --
> Lance Levsen,
> Catprint Computing
> Tel: (306) 493-2249
> Cell: (306) 230-8783
> Blog: http://www.catprint.ca/blog/
> SaskBlogs: http://saskblogs.catprint.ca/
>
> --
> I'm interested in upgrading my 28.8 kilobaud internet connection to a
> 1.5 megabit fiberoptic T1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP
> router that's compatible with my token ring ethernet LAN configuration?
>
> To unsubscribe, send a message with the word "unsubscribe" (without the
> quotes) in the body to linux-request@slg.org
> Archives are at http://list.slg.org/
>
Received on Mon Jun 4 18:38:41 2007