Linux Server Backup Solutions

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 11:40, Josep L. Guallar-Esteve wrote:
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> On Friday 14 May 2004 11:30 am, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> > but you could setup RAID5 or RAID zero on the
> > backup server too, to allow for some redundancy.
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> errr.....
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> RAID zero is  no redundancy. RAID zero is stripping. You loose 1 of the 
> partitions and the whole RAID goes bye-bye.
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> Use: RAID-1 for total redundancy but waste of 50% of drive space
> Use: RAID-5 for good redundancy and minimization of disk space wasting
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Thank you, that was a typo.  I meant RAID-1, obviously.  :-)

--Jeremy

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