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Doug

Jan 1, 1970
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I'm looking at the best way to maintain/back up my office computer which has
my alarm downloading and alarm management applications running on it, I
mention that so that the post won't be entirely off topic.

Anyway I have a RAID 1 (mirrored) with a pair of 500gb hard drives and a 2
port controller card by 3ware.

My thoughts are to either to have one of the drives of the array in a
removable tray and on a regular basis remove this drive, probably once a
week, cycle another tray/drive into the array and then rebuild the array.
This should ensure that in the event of a virus or corruption of some sort,
I will only lose, at worst a weeks worth of data which I could live with.
Any failure of a single drive being taken care of by the RAID.

Alternatively I could have the two drives of the array permanently installed
and use a disk imaging back up, probably by Terrabyte, to image the array to
the third disk in the removable tray on a regular basis, again probably once
a week.

What are the advantages/disadvantages of either method

Doug

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Frank Olson

Jan 1, 1970
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Doug said:
I'm looking at the best way to maintain/back up my office computer which has
my alarm downloading and alarm management applications running on it, I
mention that so that the post won't be entirely off topic.

Anyway I have a RAID 1 (mirrored) with a pair of 500gb hard drives and a 2
port controller card by 3ware.

My thoughts are to either to have one of the drives of the array in a
removable tray and on a regular basis remove this drive, probably once a
week, cycle another tray/drive into the array and then rebuild the array.
This should ensure that in the event of a virus or corruption of some sort,
I will only lose, at worst a weeks worth of data which I could live with.
Any failure of a single drive being taken care of by the RAID.

Alternatively I could have the two drives of the array permanently installed
and use a disk imaging back up, probably by Terrabyte, to image the array to
the third disk in the removable tray on a regular basis, again probably once
a week.

What are the advantages/disadvantages of either method

Doug


There's this nifty little drive from Seagate (I don't usually sell their
stuff, but they sent me one to try out). It's at
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/portable/freeagent_go/

It comes complete with easy to configure software (for scheduled
backups), or you can "backup on the fly". :)
 
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Jim Rojas

Jan 1, 1970
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I use a 500GB Maxtor One Touch III. I have it automatically update
changed and added files on a daily basis. It works off my USB port
seemlessly in the background. You can also use it as a spare drive. This
drive comes in many sizes and is also available in 1+ Terabyte.

Jim Rojas
 
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alarman

Jan 1, 1970
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Doug said:
I'm looking at the best way to maintain/back up my office computer
which has my alarm downloading and alarm management applications
running on it, I mention that so that the post won't be entirely off
topic.
Anyway I have a RAID 1 (mirrored) with a pair of 500gb hard drives
and a 2 port controller card by 3ware.

My thoughts are to either to have one of the drives of the array in a
removable tray and on a regular basis remove this drive, probably
once a week, cycle another tray/drive into the array and then rebuild
the array. This should ensure that in the event of a virus or
corruption of some sort, I will only lose, at worst a weeks worth of
data which I could live with. Any failure of a single drive being
taken care of by the RAID.
Alternatively I could have the two drives of the array permanently
installed and use a disk imaging back up, probably by Terrabyte, to
image the array to the third disk in the removable tray on a regular
basis, again probably once a week.

What are the advantages/disadvantages of either method

Doug

I have been thinking of subscribing to one of those off-site services, and
schedule automatic backups over the internet. Just wonder how secure they
are.
 
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JohnO

Jan 1, 1970
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Doug said:
I'm looking at the best way to maintain/back up my office computer which
has my alarm downloading and alarm management applications running on it,
I mention that so that the post won't be entirely off topic.

The NAS options out there are pretty slick these days...a few hundred bucks
for lots of redundant RAID storage, managed, and super-easy setup. We have a
fancy one here at the office and we've lost a couple drives (in the NAS
itself) over the years, but have yet to lose a single byte of data through
the drive failures. Expensive, but worry free. Also, it doesn't give you an
off-site backup.

The Terabyte (Image for Windows) approach is a nice secondary allowing you
an offsite option that can be recovered very quickly. IfW can make DVDs
directly, which is a nice option. You gotta remember to do the work,
though...

-John O
-happy to attempt a contribution here. :)
 
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Robert L Bass

Jan 1, 1970
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I have been thinking of subscribing to one of those off-site
services, and schedule automatic backups over the internet. Just
wonder how secure they are.

It depends on how determined someone else is to hurt you. We've seen
here that you are not above anything. Now imagine if someone had
access to your personal information and had your lack of morals.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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Bass Home Electronics
941-925-8650
4883 Fallcrest Circle
Sarasota · Florida · 34233
http://www.bassburglaralarms.com
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Frank Olson

Jan 1, 1970
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Robert said:
It depends on how determined someone else is to hurt you. We've seen
here that you are not above anything. Now imagine if someone had access
to your personal information and had your lack of morals.


Pot, Kettle, Black, Bass. Pot, Kettle, Black.
 
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Matt Ion

Jan 1, 1970
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Frank said:
There's this nifty little drive from Seagate (I don't usually sell their
stuff, but they sent me one to try out). It's at
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/portable/freeagent_go/

It comes complete with easy to configure software (for scheduled
backups), or you can "backup on the fly". :)

I've installed several of those "FreeAgent" external drives now, as
additional storage for DVRs that don't have room for more internal
drives. They install easily and work well, as Frank says, and they're
dirt cheap - CDN$100 for a 250GB. At that price, you could have two or
three and cycle them through for backup duties, keeping one offsite if
so desired.
 
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Jim

Jan 1, 1970
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It depends on how determined someone else is to hurt you. �We've seen
here that you are not above anything. �Now imagine if someone had
access to your personal information and had your lack of morals.
Or, was a vindictive nasty son of a bitch like you are, who justly
deserves someone finally getting even with you.
 
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