From: Mateo (mateo@mateoleyba.com)
Date: 12/02/02-04:09:58 PM Z
Yes, very unlikely, but Macs don't crash anymore :) and any kind of disk can
die. A more expensive solution would be to run a true hardware RAID, but
most people are not going to spend that kind of money on a backup at home. I
was only pointing out an economical way to save lots of data that does not
involve lots of expensive small and proprietary media. I currently have 3 OS
X Servers running system level RAID (in addition to attached hardware RAID)
as sort of an experiment, they have all performed flawless for about a year
now. It's the same software that comes with any OS X machine that people may
have on their desk at home. I wouldn't think twice about suggesting someone
run it on a small business, or especially home level.
mateo
on 12/2/02 2:43 PM, Pam Niedermayer at pam@pinehill.com wrote:
> Yes, but you are vulnerable to a serious system crash. It's unlikely to
> happen, but there's nothing preventing the OS from trashing two disks at
> once.
>
> Pam
>
> Mateo wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>> For Mac users (OS X), an inexpensive and easy way to manage backup is to
>> invest in TWO large FW drives (<$500) and use the OS to setup a simple
>> mirrored RAID. This scenario gives you around 60G of redundancy without
>> taking time to do a backup. If you want a hard copy backup or need to use
>> the file offsite burn a DVD, or use another portable FW dive. As someone
>> said earlier a DVD and CD will be around a lot longer than a proprietary
>> Iomega disk.
>>
>> mateo
>>
>>
>
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