[ILUG] OT: mirroring an external drive

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:34:37PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Brendan Kehoe thought:
> 
> >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...
> >  
> 
> That's true.  But, there was an underlying cause for my worries... I 
> expect it'll be a backup drive and, also, a common place for storing 
> piles of crap that doesn't have to stay on laptops, or needs to come off 
> old disks.

Ah, so you're using your backup device as a primary store also.  Now it's
suddenly not a backup anymore.  Spring for a second disk for the crap or
sort and delete the crap...

Conor
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