[Sussex] Recovering from RAID 5

[D.Morris at brighton.ac.uk]

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Steve Dobson wrote:

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> You have your MythTV system dumping data to your RAID 6 NAS.  I would
> never do that, video captured is not something I want (let along need)
> to backup.  What's the point?  The repeat (re-transmission) schedule
> these days for just about every program means that even if my MythTV box
> failed I can just watch the repeat.

I use my NAS to store the shows I've decided to archive off, so that I can save space on my backend,
which only has a 500GB drive in.  Which gets filled up with the TV shows my wife wants to keep etc.
 The NAS also has my music collection on it in addition to other videos for playback on multiple
frontends via mythVideo.

> 
> I also don't run a central file system.  That would be a single point of
> failure so I would need to run a backup of it.  I prefer to have local
> copies using rsync to keep them in line with each other.  I like off
> system backup as once the cron jobs are configured to make the copies I
> can just forget about them until a problem occurs.  Tape backup either
> requires a very expensive robot to change tapes or for me do get of my
> butt every day - and I am lazy.

I've read that my exchange (Burgess Hill) is getting enabled for FTTC by the year end, and Zen have
produced prices for running it.  I'm thinking of perhaps using rsync to backup all of my data to a
friends house (initial rsync done locally)  I've not looked into the security implications of this
yet, I may just encrypt my personal data in addition to a mounted encrypted disk. (Problem is if
it's powered off I've got to travel over to remount it.)



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