[SWLUG] Taking a disk image

[Steve Hill]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Emmanuel Durand wrote:

> What about RAID? I've been reading on that recently, and thought it could be
> a good idea to set up on my home desktop. Can't help as to how to set it up
> though, I must study the question harder. But it may not exactly be what
> you're looking for Peter.

RAID is pretty easy to set up - the Fedora installer will do it all for 
you.  If you are dual booting with Windows then things might get a bit 
more complex though.

It's important to remember that RAID shouldn't be treated as a backup 
solution though - it's there to keep the system running if a drive fails, 
you still need to take backups since there are a lot of failures it won't 
protect you from.

For example, if you have an accident with the "rm" command it ain't going 
to help you.  And I have seen situations where the PSU in a machine has 
blown, destroying all the hard drives as it goes.

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