on 6-9-2008 3:40 AM Peter Farrell spake the following: > I generally will do one of two things in addition to my normal backups. > > 1. run a cron that exports the database, then gzip it - I rsync that > off to another machine. > 2. I replicate the database to other machines in the same tier. > > I agree about the CF failure as well. No biggie. I would copy it's > partition somewhere else once a week for a potential restore of just > such a failure. > > -Peter I could see the CF as a faster boot, but it might just be easier to software raid 2 drives and not worry about the mix. One drive fails, you swap and resync, 2 drives fail, well you did say something about backups! ;-P -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080609/b5a506d6/attachment-0005.sig>