[ILUG] OT: mirroring an external drive

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:33:07PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Brendan Kehoe thought:
> I've got a Seagate 1TB Maxtor Central Axis external drive to do 
> network-based backups of a bunch of things at home.  My fear, of course, 
> is having a single drive doing all of the work, with the single point of 
> failure and all that.

A single backup drive is not a single point of failure.  If the backup
drive fails, you still have your running machines.  Just go get a new
backup drive and start again.  Nothing lost.

Assuming of course that you do an occasional restore test...

Conor
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