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...t a backup. My point is simply that if you > need to keep a mirror of your file server just in case it roaches itself, > what you have there is dual redundancy, not a backup. You need an offline > backup *on top* of that, for the same reason that all hot mirrors are not > backups. <smip> Which is why, for home, I went to MicroCenter and bought, for about $30 USD, a hot swap drive bay that fits in my mid-sized tower, and a 2TB drive. Doesn't even need a sled.... mark

On Nov 18, 2015, at 1:01 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > > On 11/18/2015 11:55 AM, Warren Young wrote: >> It?s rather annoying to buy a NAS, then later realize you need to buy*another* NAS as a mirror in case the first one roaches itself. Isn?t that what redundant storage is supposed to avoid? > > > no, RAID is purely availability when faced with

I just got a nice, shiny new machine at work, a Core 2 Duo, on which I just finished installing CentOS 5.2 with a fair number of packages, SeaMonkey 1.1.10, Adobe Reader 8.0, Adobe Flash 9.0, mplayer, mplayerplug-in (both from rpmforge), and I think that was it. Then I went and got the latest VMWare Server, 1.0.7, from VMWare, pulled down their rpm, installed it, and ran vmware-config.pl, which

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