[Sussex] RAID & backup recomendations for home

[Diego Moore]

Hi Dave,

On 5/11/06, David Morris <slug at greenacre.no-ip.com> wrote:
>
> I'm personally running a central backup server using raid across 4 disks
> (using a card but software would be fine).  This makes use of rsync and
> a custom bash script which kicks off every night, logging into the
> various machines and downloading the latest info and it works like a charm.

Let me get this right...

You rsync the files to a backup server, but if its just a backup
server why use RAID? Am I missing something?

DM