[Sussex] RAID & backup recomendations for home

[David Morris]

Diego Moore wrote:
> 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?
It's just another layer of redundancy, doesn't need to be done. 

The backup server also contains my uni work, which has the last 7 days 
worth as well, allowing me to backtrack to an earlier version if required.

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