Re: backups and losses (was "Re: striping 2x500G to mirror 1x1T")

[David T-G <davidtg-robot@justpickone.org>]

Natanji, et al --

...and then Natanji said...
% 
% Hello David,
% what you propose here should work, but be aware that you are essentially
% first writing all data to the 2 smaller drives and then reading from them
% only when the mirror 1 TB disk gets added. If there are bad sectors that
% only gets dicovered while reading (not writing), you might lose data. A much
[snip]

Thanks for the input!

While I'd love to have the luxury of redundant backups and more devices,
that's out of the cards on this little server :-/  However, after I rsync
across all content I then use diff -r to check it, so I have to read each
byte on each side anyway.  That gives me at least a little more confidence!


Have a great day

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