[Ham-Mac] Re: Ham-Mac Digest, Vol 24, Issue 7

[Todd Ruby]

David
what do you mean by RAID?
can you explain what you mean by rotating one of the hard drives?

I appreciated the detail of your post.

thanks


73
de
todd
WB2ZAB

> As I see it, there are at least the following reasons for backing up:
>
> + to project against a HD failure
> - backup to another HD, if the data is very dynamic and its business
>   critical, use RAID
> = I use 2 HD's, one is removable and gets rotated every week, so I 
> have two
>   weeks worth, the other is a LaCie 500GB d2 (just purchased to replace
>   smaller HD, I've run out of space) - this reduces the risk of 
> failure to
>   a figure smaller than that of me getting to be a Space Station Ham 
> :-)
>   This does my MLDX log etc, basically my Documents/Library/Readerware 
> db
>   etc. and the current years (2006) iPhotos.