From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: RAID over Firewire Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:56:23 -0400 Message-ID: <44FD8207.2030502@tmr.com> References: <44EB94BE.8080907@sauce.co.nz> <44FC653D.8020600@tmr.com> <44FC830D.2020007@sauce.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <44FC830D.2020007@sauce.co.nz> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Scobie Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Richard Scobie wrote: > Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> >> It should work, but I don't like it... it leaves you with a lot of >> exposure between backups. >> >> Unless your data change a lot, you might consider a good incremental >> dump program to DVD or similar. > > > Thanks. I have abandoned this option for various reasons, including > people randomly unplugging the drives. > > Rsync to another machine is the current plan. At one time I was evaluating doing RAID1 to an NBD on another machine, using write-mostly to make it a one way process. I had to redeplot the hardware before I reached a conclusion, and it was with an older kernel, so I simply throw it out for discussion. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979