From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:53:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6BF3F0.6070803@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinndn25imQbF8-MgyT8vvQAewkGP1seVT-kXw8j@mail.gmail.com>
On 08/18/2010 04:53 AM, Nganon wrote:
> I did not know that. I was thinking of, in couple of months, buying a
> notebook
> with two HDDs with RAID1 installed and using the usb drive as a backup
> destination. So if RAID got corruped, the backups, made since then,
> would be
> useless? How would you resolve it?
The ONLY thing RAID will save you from is hardware failure.
Copying data from one disk to another is not RAID. If you use dd to copy
from one corrupt filesystem to another, you have two corrupt filesystems.
If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-18 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-15 23:11 [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo Nganon
2010-08-16 0:15 ` Alex Schuster
2010-08-16 10:27 ` Nganon
2010-08-16 8:36 ` Marco
2010-08-16 10:30 ` Nganon
2010-08-16 21:37 ` Mick
2010-08-16 23:53 ` Thomas Yao
2010-08-17 11:34 ` Nganon
2010-08-17 11:29 ` Nganon
2010-08-17 12:14 ` Maximilian Bräutigam
2010-08-17 12:33 ` Alex Schuster
2010-08-18 11:04 ` Nganon
2010-08-18 11:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-18 11:53 ` Nganon
2010-08-18 14:53 ` Bill Longman [this message]
2010-08-18 18:03 ` Nganon
2010-08-18 18:37 ` Bill Longman
2010-08-18 18:49 ` Joerg Schilling
2010-08-18 19:04 ` Nganon
2010-08-18 19:28 ` Joerg Schilling
2010-08-18 19:09 ` Bill Longman
2010-08-18 19:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-08-18 20:03 ` Joerg Schilling
2010-08-19 9:30 ` Joerg Schilling
2010-08-18 18:53 ` Nganon
2010-08-17 19:34 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-08-18 11:09 ` Nganon
2010-08-18 11:59 ` William Kenworthy
2010-08-18 17:56 ` Nganon
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