Therese Trudeau wrote:
>
> I have two home workstation machines.
> One is Centos, and one is Windows (the one I use Adobe on). I'd prefer if possible
> to have the same type of RAID cards on both machines, because easier to
> manage and if I ever decide to sell or give away one machine, I can pull
> the raid card and use it as a backup.
I've always considered this a huge advantage of software raid1. Even if
everything on a machine melts except for one drive, you can recover
the data from it and you don't need a special controller to do it. On
windows, you need the server versions to do mirroring, though.
If you can tolerate losing an hour's work or so, you could just schedule
rsync commands to keep copies updated on another (perhaps external)
drive or to another machine on the network - or get a Mac with it's
'time machine' backup. This approach is actually safer than RAID alone,
since operator or software errors will wipe out your mirrored copy
instantly as well with RAID.
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Les Mikesell
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